marc chagall 1887- 1985 - earlston high school.ppt

文档介绍：Marc Chagall 1887- 1985Marc Chagall?I and the Village 1911 oil on canvasSymbolism in Marc Chagall’s Paintings?Cow : wonderful life : milk, meat, leather, horn , power?Tree: another fertility life symbol?Bosom ( often naked ): eroticism and fertility of life ( Chagall loved and respected women)?Herring ( often also painted as flying fish ) : commermorates Chagall’s father working in a fish factory?Pendulum clock : time , and modest life ?Candlestick : two candles symbolize the Shabbat or the menorah ( candle stick with seven candles ) or the Hanukkah- candle stick , and therefore the life of pious Jews?Windows : Chagall’s love of Freedom, and Paris through the window?Houses of Vitebsk ( often in paintings of his time in Paris