Philosophical Letters: The Rain (Marc Chagall)

 

John and Gina is a couple of young Americans in love with the renaissance, after Rome and Florence they decide to go to Venice, they saw the main monuments of this lagoon city, and then they decided to the museum Peggy Guggenheim.

Here they saw a lot of paintings, at some point their eyes have been captured by a paint with glittering colours, The Rain of March Chagall.

Gina told to his husband that this painting is very bizarre, there is a logic connection between the title and the theme. John looked at her for a while and then he said to her to explain her reasons.

She said to him that for her the rain means sadness, when it rains the sky is dark, there is a strong wind and people take refuge under some roof.

John nodded and then said that most people during the rain they gather around a fireplace and start talking, Gina added that to stay around a fireplace is very sad also from the fact of remaining trapped between the walls of the house.

John told her that her opinion is very limited, his perspective is completely different, they opinion can stand together, thanks to the red tree that means harmony and unity such as their life as a couple where no idea must prevail but be integrated.

After a long reasoning they managed to integrate their differences, the dark part of the painting is the material world, while the red colour represents blood synonymous of the human  life.