Now look at this other painting and do the same exercise of contemplation and introspection Now compare your sensations:Are your thoughts similar to when you looked at The Blue House? What story is behind this image for you?What role do colors play in your evocations and sensations?
Now sharethis exercise of contemplating and feeling with a partner, friend, or family member.
Are you wondering wheredid the painter who made them live? Why did he paint them? What did the painter want to tell us? Well, now we are going to learn more about him.
His name is Marc Chagall and, as you may have guessed from the paintings and the name, he is not Mexican. He was born in Belarus, a country located very far from here, in Europe, very close to Lithuania, Latvia, and Russia.
But when Marc Was born, Belarus Was the Republic or Commonwealth of the Two Nations, made up of what now isLithuania and Poland. Later, in 1918, it was established as an independent republic and became part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (ussR). In 1991, when the federative pact of the Soviet Union was broken, Belarus became an independent country again, but with a strong Russian influence and presence, since Russia was the country from which the entire government of the ussR was administered.
With this information, you can imagine more about the time and place where Marc Chagall lived, because everything he painted, as with all painters, had a lot to do with what he felt and saw of the world.
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The Grey House, 1917, Marc Chagall (1887-1985)
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