Today at the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza and the bank "Caja Madrid" exhibition at 150 works by Marc Chagall of the leading public and private collections - of museums MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Pompidou Centre and other

Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, February 14 - May 20, 2012

Marc Chagall
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1911 Marc Chagall retrospective at the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, February 14 - May 20, 2012

today in Madrid at the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza and the bank "Caja Madrid" opens first in Spain, a large-scale retrospective of the Marc Chagall . exposition, encompassing all the key stages of the creative career of one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century, includes 150 works from public and private collections from around the world. Twenty world's major museums - MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum New York, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tate Modern, and others - provided the key for the exhibition of Chagall's work from their collections. considerable body of 20 works arrived in Madrid from the Centre Pompidou in Paris. In addition, fit of generosity and relatives of the artist who provided many important works. As a result, a retrospective of a large and comprehensive collection of masterpieces selected by the curator and president of the Committee Chagall Jean-Louis Pra (Jean-Lous Prat). exhibition promises to be spectacular and unique cultural event in Spain.

Marc Chagall created his expressive and colorful style of the author under the influence of the vicissitudes of his life, his religious and traditional views of a representative environment of Russian Jews. Combining elements of his works of Cubism, Fauvism, and Orphism of Robert Delaunay, the artist came to its unique scenic handwriting, which does not fit into any particular course. native of Belarus Vitebsk, Chagall for his long life (nearly a hundred years) was an eyewitness to key historical events of the first half of the twentieth century. This indefatigable creator and tireless experimenter, always open to know the new, made a huge contribution to the history of world art. Staying true to his unique style of author, Marc Chagall at the same time trying to work in a variety of media - paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, stained glass, and so on. One section of the current exhibitions, for example, is devoted to Chagall's works in the field of book illustration. on friendly circle of artists have always been poets and writers, and often, this friendship is poured into a fruitful creative unions. to Andre Breton, Andre Malraux, Blaise Cendrars and Guillaume Apollinaire, Marc Chagall was a "literary artist" who perceived the poem and prose like an encrypted message in the words of freedom - he decorated it with the fantastic and colorful artistic images.

Chagall was the master of color, its colorful hues vibrate at different levels of brightness, stressing that the most important in the picture. Shades of blue, green, red and yellow fill the lives of his real and fictional characters that live in their own universe. Everything is possible in this continually amazed at the world: here you can see a number of violinists and rabbis, lovers and acrobats, landscapes and wild animals . wonder Chagall is considered a precursor of surrealism, so unexpected inhabitants of his paintings. André Breton wrote that "with the Chagall painting of the modern triumphantly entered metaphor».

exhibition at the Museum Thyssen-Bonemisa and bank "Caja Madrid" adheres to a chronological order. first section, "The Way of Poetry", covers the early period of life in Russia, the first time in Paris and forced emigration to the United States. These include a work created in revolutionary Russia, and wrote on his return to Paris in 1920. second section, "The Great Game Colors", which is exhibited in the premises of the bank "Caja Madrid", analyzes the evolution of the creative masters of the 1950s, reflects the fundamental themes in the works of Chagall recent decades - such as the Bible or the circus, his attitude to modern poetry, his sculpture and ceramics.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Source : artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru