Chagall at Thyssen in Madrid
One of the most exciting exhibitions of the winter and well into the spring, from the 14th of February to the 20th of May to be precise, takes place at Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum with a comprehensive retrospective of an artist with little presence in the Spanish public collections: Marc Chagall (1887-1986).
The fact that the artist (as the average individual) is a more or less successful result of his time could be only because of the vicissitudes of his Belarusian village life; Jewish and the eldest son of a big family (there were nine siblings). The young Marc received artistic training in St. Petersburg and when the Russian Revolution broke out, as he was so actively involved in the new political model, he was even able to hold medium position in his native village. Unfortunately, the revolutionary processes punish those who, at that time, dare to challenge the cruel methods of the dominant orthodoxy and Chagall, with some differences with the oligarchy, was forced to leave his country in 1923. After passing through Berlin, he settled in Paris, the center of boiling intellectual, artistic and philosophical movements. He moved between Montmartre and Montparnasse where he got in contact with the avant-garde painters and hard to ascribe such is the case of Amadeo Modigliani. The result of this cultural interaction are his first paintings in which references to Cubism, Fauvism and especially surrealism are appraised, though, as a unique artist, he impressed his particular interpretation. The tranquility for mature Chagall is broken with the advance of Nazi troops on French soil. With a Jewish Family and deep religious convictions, he is forced, again, another exile: this time the United States. Peace makes the job easier and deepening of his particular pictorial universe, this time ensconced in Provence where he died being more than ninety-eight.
Marc Chagall’s painting, due to its strong stamp and oniric symbolic (remember that in the world of dreams the lost language of universal symbols is spoken) has been studied extensively by the analytic school of CG Jung (especially by Aniela Jaffé). In Her, the reasons for the moon, sun, fish, river or horses are repeated (symbolization of unconscious forces uncontrolled) that are part of collective symbolic heritage.
Chagall is hardly represented in the Spanish public collections and it is the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid that has the greater number of works of this unique artist: four frames. With this exhibition, in collaboration with the Fundación Caja Madrid (click on the following link http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/exposiciones_proximas), developers seek to organize a grand retrospective in which are represented pictures of all eras. Without a doubt, this is a unique opportunity to learn about the work steeped in equal parts, of religion and myth of one of the flagship artists of art history.
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How could it be any other way, travelers from all over the world will visit this event. If you don’t live in the capital of Spain, remember to book apartments in Madrid
