Marc Chagall

Recently, my mother called me up and told me she found an art book in the library she works at that had an artist she thought would interest me. Well, she was right, good thing too or this would have been a rather short post. Anyway, it turns out she found a book about Marc Chagall. A Jewish artist, born 1887, died 1985, uses a wide variety of styles and mediums (gouche, oils, tempura, even canvas and cardboard.) Some of his pieces look incredibly cubist, so much that it is difficult to see what is being portrayed. However, he has some other pieces that only have small traces of cubism influences, which gives his body of work wide variety in not only what he uses, as mentioned before, but his style. Even having different styles, it is still possible to tell which is his personal style overall. (Some musicians today could take a page out of his book and not have all of their songs sound identical, eh Owl City?)

Anyway~ some pieces of his work that caught my eye and show his varying styles:











"Grey" Lovers. 1917. Oil on canvas. 69 x 49. (Left)

Self-Portrait. 1914. Oil on cardboard. 30 x 26.5. (Right)

Self-Portrait with Muse (Dream). 1917-1918. Oil on canvas. 157 x 140.

Anyway, I love the feel of his paintings, as well as the colors that he uses and, just simply, the way he draws people. I think their faces are very interesting, and the compositions are nice to look at. The concepts of the paintings are also intriguing, going from dreams to religious pictures, once again, he has a wide variety in his art, something for everyone, and something to keep you looking through all of his pieces.

Finally, the setup of this blog makes no damn sense and the pictures and text positioning is driving me bloody freaky nuts. So until I can tame this God forsaken beast of a format, bear with me as it most likely will make absolutely NO SENSE.

This has been another Wasting Time With Kathy, join us again next week for another episode. Will Kathy get her coffee? Will she steal her neighbor's cat? Find out next week.

*Disclaimer: I know I'm not wasting time as this is for the very important Senior Sem. It's just a running joke that I've come to love, and might just rename my blog such as it is rather catchy...