Marc Chagall

Last Sunday I went to Mercat de Sant Antoni (in Barcelona). I usually go there (in fact, I love this kind of places and, of course, I can spend a lot of hours in this market, in a book shop or maybe in a library on my own….) I bought a wonderful book: “The story behind the Painting” by Leo Roslen. I think it’s a great book because you can find in it exciting stories about famous painters and their masterpieces and, in addition, you can discover interesting human stories behind these paintings.

In fact, I bought it because I found a wonderful story about one of my favourite painters: Marc Chagall. He was great, brilliant.... You can read an article about Chagall titled “The blue Air of Love”. Chagall often used blue colours, but in this painting we can see a red angel among a couple of lovers: “The wedded with an angel” is the title. He said that he fell in love with her wife before “he ever laid eyes on her...” And when he saw her for the first time he wrote “I knew that this is she.... Her silence is mine. Her eyes are mine. When she looks at me, it seem that she has know my childhood, my present life, my future too. She never saw me before, but it’s as if she had always been watching over me...” Personally, I think these sentences are the most beautifl declaration of Love that I have ever heard...

Bella was his wife. She was very important in his career for 29 years ! Chagall was a very special person, and she helped him a lot and always was next to him (he painted her a lot of times) She died in 1944 and he knew her in 1914. Chagal was born in Russia in 1889.

If you see Chagall’s paintings maybe you can think he had a lot of fantasy in his masterpieces because there are a lot of angels, little men or women flying, a lot of movements in his figures, strangers human beings.... but his paintings weren’t legends or fairy tales. He alwas said “To call anything that happens illogical is a fantasy is to admit that you don’t understant nature”

See you !