Chagall's love for his first wife Bella, using his own words from his autobiography My Life. Chagall's artwork depicts both Bella in life and Bella in death. These later images reveal the love he had for her that never died with her.
Marc Chagall has been my favorite artist since I first saw a show of his at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1985 (a couple of months after he died).
True Chagall fans will enjoy reading his autobiography My Life, as he writes just like he painted with seemingly no sense of time, space, or gravity
The video is set to Andre Rieu's interpretation of "Send in the Clowns." The original lyrics below remind me so much of how Chagall described life and art sometimes using obscure imagery and complex allusions to objects, color, and space in ways only he could truly understand.
Two major movements in modern art are Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. The movements share two fundamental characteristics: the overall or generalized composition and a notably large scale. Abstract Expressionists concentrated much of their energy on individual brush stroke. In contrast with this, the Color Field painters sought to impersonalize their art by permitting the materials themselves to create the forms or by utilizing hard-edged shapes with relatively flattened tints.
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He grew up in Arizona and California, and was exposed to Indian culture through his father. In 1929, he moved to New York City and began painting under his mentor Thomas Hart Benton at the Arts Student League. Benton exposed Pollock to working with the Regionalists, and introducing his to Mexican mural painters like David Alfaro Siqueiros, Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera.
