Painting Reviews: Waiting (Marc Chagall)

 

Oil On Canvas

1967

By: Marc Chagall 

Born: July 7, 1887; Vitebsk, Belarus  

Died: March 28, 1985; Saint-Paul-de-Venice, France  

Nationality: French, Jewish, Belarusian

Art Movement: Naïve Art (Primitivism)

Painting School: École de Paris, Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of the Youth), Donkey's Tail (Osliniy khvost), Degenerate art, La Ruche

Field: painting

Influenced by: Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Leon Bakst, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Chaim Soutine, Robert Delaunay, Cubism

Influenced on: Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Ossip Zadkine, Joan Miro, El Lissitzky, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism

Teachers: Leon Bakst, Jean Metzinger, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Henri Le Fauconnier

Art institution: Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting, St. Petersburg, Russia, Vitebsk Art School, Vitebsk, Belarus, Académie de La Palette, Paris, France

Friends and Co-workers: Robert Delaunay, Fernand Leger, Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich

Source: WikiArt

Description:

This painting dense of colors is the dream of Marc Chagall, he is dreaming his hometown Vitebsk, Belarus.

But what a wonderful dream, it is made of a brilliant colors, such as the blue, yellow, green, red and green.

At the centre there is a bird with its open wings, it makes a woman fly, with a baby and a bouquet of flowers, probably the most precious gift.

Close to them there is a farmer with an animal, they are close friend, both are looking at the bird with a woman and child flying on a blue sky.

Below them there is the Vitebsk with its red roofs and a half moon.

In my opinion he is dreaming a journey to the infinite with his loved ones.