Art Reproductions The Promenade, 1918 by Marc Chagall (Inspired By) (1887-1985, Belarus) | WahooArt.com

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"The Promenade"

Marc Chagall (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 169 x 163 cm - 1918 - Fauvism (i)
Housed in the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, Chagall painted this in Vitebsk between 1917 and 1918, during the winters. Made after the October Revolution, his painting somehow participated in the overwhelming sense of freedom and jubilation that pervaded the streets of Russia. Chagall was a Jew and this revolution meant pure liberation for his community from the sheer discrimination faced by them, which even Chagall was subject to growing up. Now, they had equal rights to everyone as citizens. Chagall felt newfound freedom even as an artist, since he mostly resorted to radical and vanguard methods that weren’t well accepted in his state prior to the revolution. That lady in the painting is none other than Chagall’s wife Bella Rosenfield. Long after she passed away Chagall once remarked that Bella had always guided his work, flying over all his paintings. Here, she’s literally in the air, while the town falls behind her in the background. Chagall channels his experience of Futurism and Cubism into making the geometrical patterns that base the composition of every individual element in this painting.

 





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