Popular Russian traditions merge with Hebrew rites giving life to Marc Chagall's surreal and visionary fables.
This catalogue, produced to mark the exhibition organised in Rome at the Complesso del Vittoriano, brings together more than 150 works by Chagall, including paintings, gouaches, drawings, sculptures and engravings, which highlight how the Russian artist was a painter imbued with culture and tradition, one of the greatest of the twentieth century.
Marc Chagall was famous in his own time and had significant public commissions, including one for the ceiling of the Paris Opera, but also for the sets and costumes of the Magic Flute, which inaugurated the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He was the first living artist to whom a national museum in France was dedicated, in addition to a personal retrospective at the Louvre.
And today Chagall has become popular. The world he represents is not prosaically realistic, nor does it depart so much from reality that it cannot be easily understood, even by those who are not close to art.
His work is magnificent and yet at the same time welcomes those who are not part of the art world. The creatures that free themselves in his paintings bring the joy and tenderness of poetry to the world of the everyday, but they are also imbued with the magic value of myth. This is a startling re-reading of Chagall's anti-conformist, precursory and sublime art.
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