Chagall: Love, War, and Exile
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." - Marc Chagall
With fall comes the opening of The Jewish Museum's new blockbuster show, Marc Chagall: Love, War, and Exile. For the first time in the U.S., an exhibition truly explores a significant but neglected period in the artist’s career: the rise of fascism in the 1930s through 1948, his years spent in Paris and then in exile to New York.
“The exhibition provides an opportunity to reevaluate Marc Chagall’s art in the context of his life,” said Susan Tumarkin Goodman, senior curator emerita, who organized the show.
Although it is an exhibition which highlights the tragedies in Marc Chagall’s life- from the death of his wife, Bella, to the suffering of the Jews throughout Europe- it is also full of hope, expressed in joy-filled paintings replete with intense color and levitating figures.
Marc Chagall: Love, War, and Exile is on view from September 15, 2013 - February 2, 2014.