Color, memory and the poetic image
Marc Chagall brought figures, animals and remembered places into richly colored compositions that often suspend the rules of ordinary space. His work draws on his early life, literary imagination and the possibilities of color to turn a scene into something lyrical.
Illustrated books provide a particularly close encounter with that language. In La Poésie, Georges Pompidou’s text and a Chagall color lithograph occupy the same publication, giving the image a place in the rhythm of reading.
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Further reading
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Marc Chagall
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