Marc Chagall Analysis

Marc Chagall is considered as one of the most popular artists of the 20th Century, famous for his poetic, surreal imagery that represent a topsy-turvy world, combining fantasy and spiritually with a modernist style. Although the famous modern artist Marc Chagall is not only known as a Jewish artist, his background is the vehicle through which he sees the world and becomes the language of his universally valid art. Chagall once remarked in the Yiddish literary journal Shtrom in 1922 as “Leaves from My Notebook”: “If I were not a Jew… I would not have been an artist, or I would be a different artist altogether.” The interwove of Chagall’s Jewish background and his multi-cultural life experience has contributed a lot to his artistic inspiration and made him become the center …show more content…
The figure in the red shirt on the far right is harder to identify, he could be the representative of the proletariat Granovsky again, resting, satisfied that the task of revolutionizing Jewish culture is well under way. Moreover, soaking one’s feet in a bowl of cold water is not only a way to rest after long labor, but also a way to keep alert, which practiced by religious Jews while studying all night. This visual pun suggests the situation under the Revolution. To the upper right corner, there are two hands holding an instrument of circumcision. This could be an indication of the Jewification of the new art. The body, seemingly of a pregnant woman, appears later in Chagall’s portrayals of Jesus Christ and may contribute to ambivalence expressed in Acosta’s figure. The waiter in the corner who is bringing food to the celebration, looks like photographs of El –Lissitzky at the time. Chagall was furious with Lissitzky’s “betrayal” by joining