Vitebsk and love
The picture depicts the master's two loves - beloved Bella and the native town of Vitebsk. The streets of the city are represented by houses that are separated by a high dark fence.
Mark and Bella are flying over Vitebsk. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind when looking at the canvas is — flight is a metaphor for love that inspires the heroes and elevates them above everyday life (represented in the form of a city landscape with a goat and a man with pants down) .
But flight is also the passage of time, where the heroes, picked up by air currents, are powerless in the face of historical circumstances. These are memories, dreams, in which Mark and Bella are immersed. This is the state: contemplation, non-participation, detachment.
But flight is also the passage of time, where the heroes, picked up by air currents, are powerless in the face of historical circumstances. These are memories, dreams, in which Mark and Bella are immersed. This is the state: contemplation, non-participation, detachment.
Meanings
Vitebsk here is such a full-fledged participant in the plot, like Mark with Bella, like goat with man. Depending on the interpretation of the flight, the image of the city also acquires different facets. This is the city as such, with bustle and everyday concerns.
This is also a metaphor for life, the events that take place. This is also a certain background, on which the theses about that the most important things are not things stand out more clearly. It is also a casket of memories of childhood, youth and adult years (after all, Vitebsk is Chagall's native city, where he repeatedly returned).
This is also a metaphor for life, the events that take place. This is also a certain background, on which the theses about that the most important things are not things stand out more clearly. It is also a casket of memories of childhood, youth and adult years (after all, Vitebsk is Chagall's native city, where he repeatedly returned).
Marc Chagall
“But the main thing is that I was born dead. Didn't want to live. A sort of, imagine, a pale lump, unwilling to live. It's like I've seen enough of Chagall's paintings. They pricked him with pins, dipped a bucket of water. And finally he meowed weakly. In general, I was born, stillborn.
Author
Marc Chagall lived for 98 years. In his life there were three muses, two spouses and one eternal love, he lost hundreds of paintings and created thousands. The artist conquered Paris and New York, he was not afraid of losing Picasso's friendship and was afraid to see Vitebsk not the way he remembered it in his youth. The episodes of the master's biography are sometimes as contradictory as the plots of his paintings.
With his work, he was able to achieve such recognition and authority that in the late 1970s, an exhibition of the artist's works was organized in the Louvre, timed to coincide with his 90th birthday. So that you understand the solemnity of the moment, the Louvre has never before exhibited works during the life of the author.
Bella Rosenfeld
muse
They met in 1909. For him, it was almost a sunstroke, if Bunin came up with the definition.
Marc Chagall was a monogamous artist. Yes, he was married more than once. But on almost all canvases, female images are inspired by one beautiful lady - Berta (Bella) Rosenfeld.
“With it should be me —suddenly illuminates me! She is silent, and so am I. She looks — oh, her eyes! — me too. As if we have known each other for a long time, and she knows everything about me: my childhood, my present life, and what will be so; as if she was always watching mna, was somewhere nearby, although I saw her for for the first time. And I understood: this is my wife. Eyes shine on a pale face. Big, bulging, black! These are my eyes, my soul"
— Chagall writes in the book "My Life". By the time Over the City was completed, they were already spouses and parents.
The fate of the picture
where is stored
The painting “Above the City” was painted during the years of the revolution, which, according to Chagall himself, excited him “with the spectacle of a dynamic impulse that permeated it to depth”
Currently, the original painting is in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, and the audience can admire the masterpiece not only on the photo
Modern interpretations
memes
Modern interpretations
memes
