The
exhibition of lithographs in the museum
of Stalowa Wola made
possible a visit in wonderful world of Chagall’s pictures.
Marc
Chagall (Moshe Seigal) is one of the greatest artists of 20th
century. He was born in 1887
in Jewish family on the territory of tsarist Rusia. His
youth he spent in Witebsk (Russia).
Since 1922 he stayed on emigration in Berlin, Paris, USA
and Mexico (during World War
II) and later in France again.
Chagall began his painting
from naïve realistic symbolism and came to cubism, and later to symbolism and
surrealism. In effect he developed his own unique style – unreal and fantastic,
oscillated between reality and dream poetical, full of adoration for joy of
life and love.
Painting
subjects he searched in folklore of the country of his childhood, Jewish
ceremonial, the Bible and people around him.
He
made oil pictures, graphic works, sculptures, ceramics, mosaics, but one of his
favourite techniques was lithography.
Few
dozen of more than a thousand works, which was made by the artist, were
presented on the exhibition. The Bible was one of the important inspirations
for Chagall. He thought that people didn’t know the Bible and he wanted to show
them it in illustrations.
The
visitors also could see pairs in love, during dancing, flying in the sky, out
of the time and reality. “In life and in art everything is possible, when it is
based in love” - Chagall said.
The
last lithograph Marc Chagall made… on day of his death – it was titled “Towards
another light”. He died on 28th March 1985.
