Wood Puzzle Michele Wilson - Chagall : Ceiling of Paris Opera House - 80 pieces

Main works

The "Violinists" (blue or green), The Life, Above the City, and The Bride.

Artistic movements

Judaica and, in its early stages, Neo-primitivism

Inspiration, influence

The life of the Shteti (Jewish village in Eastern Europe) is one of his favorite subjects. Pictorially, he will never belong to any school, but will take (or even borrow) elements that can feed his painting here and there (from the Fauvists, the Constructivists, the Cubists, or the Grand classics).

His contemporaries

Marc Chagall was not the type to socialize with other painters, so immersed in his own world, so true to himself, to his loved ones, and to his childhood dreams. His impact on his contemporaries is difficult to quantify... On the general public, it is even more impressive!

To keep in mind

Chagall is first and foremost a unique universe, a genius tightrope walker on the delicate line of the Jewish diaspora in the heart of the 20th century! From Russian Pogroms to the heights of Saint-Paul de Vence, Chagall experienced travel, the loss of his works, the loss of the one he loved madly (Bella), and yet he always knew how to start over, put the blank canvas back on the easel, and reinvent his world.

To go further

It is necessary to discover the stained glass windows that he created (those of the Reims Cathedral or those of the Chagall Museum in Nice). It is also necessary to go and admire the ceiling of the Opera Garnier and understand that Chagall is a narrative painter, a man who narrated what we all experience in life, happiness and unhappiness, births and deaths, love and loss of love... And that he portrayed all of this in colors like no one else, in a luminous and universal allegory.