Question by KB24 MVP 08: where can i find information on the specific painting “paris through the window” by marc chagall?
anything other than the guggenheim museum, i already have that.
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Answer by sports
Little bits of text about the painting here and there:
http://keithperkins.net/
http://www.abbeville.com/interiors.asp?ISBN=0789201879&CaptionNumber=04
http://www.theartwolf.com/masterworks/chagall.htm
http://www.glenngoring.com/c05.html
http://nerdfighters.ning.com/
Quotes by Marc Chagall that might give you some further insights into the painting:
• “I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”
• “If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.”
• “All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
• “Great art picks up where nature ends.”
• “I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.”
• “In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”
• “Will there be anymore!”
• “We all know that a good person can be a bad artist. But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.”
• “Only love interest me, and I am only in contact with things I love.”
• “My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”
• “Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?”
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angela l says
Aside from the Guggenheim text, there is nothing much else on line. But maybe I can help with a few more details. Delauney's influence is mentioned in the Guggenheim text; but not the fact that Chagall, unlike the Futurists did not see the city as an aggressive place, but was admired its beauty. Hence the colorful palette. this painting of 1913 – his head is turned two ways – looking out at the city, and turning his face away from it into the interior of the room., perhaps to his canvas where he might have been (like Self p. with 7 fingers) painting a scene of his home city Vitbesk.