Chagall

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Text arid Notes by
Alfred Werner
Whether he portrays his childhood vil-
lage of Vitebsk or his later home in
Paris, illustrates La Fontaine's fables
or the Old Testament, Chagall's violin-
playing horses, floating lovers or Bib-
lical kings inhabit a magic realm unique
in contemporary art. Based on private
memories, defying logic and the rules of
physics, his canvases elaborate an inner
world of beauty and color that seems un-
touched by corrupting influences. He is
one of the most supremely accomplished
of artists, but it is his preservation of
this inner world, his chagallite, as it has
been called, that makes him the out-
standing lyric painter of our times.
This book provides a magnificent
panorama of Chagall's work from his
early Paris paintings, with their Fauve
or Cubist influences, to the Daphnis
and Chloe illustrations and the Jeru-
salem Windows of the 1960s. Included
are many of his famous paintings, / and
the Village, Lovers at the Eiffel Tower... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Text arid Notes by
Alfred Werner
Whether he portrays his childhood vil-
lage of Vitebsk or his later home in
Paris, illustrates La Fontaine's fables
or the Old Testament, Chagall's violin-
playing horses, floating lovers or Bib-
lical kings inhabit a magic realm unique
in contemporary art. Based on private
memories, defying logic and the rules of
physics, his canvases elaborate an inner
world of beauty and color that seems un-
touched by corrupting influences. He is
one of the most supremely accomplished
of artists, but it is his preservation of
this inner world, his chagallite, as it has
been called, that makes him the out-
standing lyric painter of our times.
This book provides a magnificent
panorama of Chagall's work from his
early Paris paintings, with their Fauve
or Cubist influences, to the Daphnis
and Chloe illustrations and the Jeru-
salem Windows of the 1960s. Included
are many of his famous paintings, / and
the Village, Lovers at the Eiffel Tower
and others, as well as lesser-known but
equally exquisite masterworks such as
the Wailing Wall, illustrative of the
variety and range of Chagall's talent. A
good number of his finest lithographs
are also reproduced. The biographical
introduction and plate notes by a dis-
tinguished author and art critic provide
authoritative background and commen-
tary on Chagall, both as man and artist.
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