Tag: Marc Chagall

Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review

To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words
Flemish Expressionism: Wonderful Memories

An informative survey explores one of the 20th century’s artistic side-streams, which captured quiet Flemish villages and provincial voyeurism between the wars
In the Land of the Gods. Marc Chagall and the Greek World

This colourful exhibition explores the influences of the Hellenic world and its Bacchanalian myths on the Jewish artist of folklore, circus, and biblical tales
Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922

By sidestepping radical abstraction and highlighting the quixotic figurative work of Chagall, this exhibition foregrounds the revolution’s potential to bring joy, sex and playfulness into people’s lives apart from political propaganda, utopianism and promises of a better life
Strange Worlds: Visions of Angela Carter

To mark the 25th anniversary of Carter’s death, this exhibition brings together works that influenced the writer and works inspired by her, creating a visceral, violent and, at times, unpalatable celebration of magic realism and fairyland pornography
Marc Chagall: A Retrospective (1908-1985)

The long career of a colourful chameleon, Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, is shown off in more than 200 works on loan from over 20 collections
A Painter of Sorrows

Chagall: Love, War and Exile The Jewish Museum, New York 15 September 2013 – 2 February 2014
Chagall: Modern Master

Tate Liverpool 8 June–6 October 2013
Wrestling with the Angel in the Modern Age
Marc Chagall: Ceramic Masterpieces

Edited by Roland Doschka, Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing, September 2003. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a storyteller with a magical dimension. His popularity was in large part due to the use of Biblical and Hebrew imagery, which imbued…