Chagall and the Cross at the Paris Museum of Jewish Art
THE JEWISH PRESS
By Richard McBee
FRANCE - When Jewish artists assimilate they lose a precious perspective and often forget who they really are. The current exhibition "Chagall and the Bible" at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris purports to explain how Chagall, famously known as a ground-breaking modernist and charming creator of folk inspired lovers, flowers and mythological fantasies, is also a serious 20th century biblical artist. At the end of the exhibition the wall text asserts "Marc Chagall was probably the only Jewish artist of his generation to confront another religious tradition without ever betraying his own he forged a universal message." In his struggle to understand our terrible century, Chagall did not betray his religious tradition; he simply forgot it. [link]
By Richard McBee
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| "Yellow Crucifixion" (1942-43) By Marc Chagall |
