Culturespaces presents an unexplored dimension of the work of Marc Chagall, celebrated master of color by artists and critics of his time. The exhibition, devoted to the second part of the career of the artist, highlights its renewal artistic and reveals each stage of creation of his work from the year 1948 until his death, in 1985. More than 100 works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, washes, gouaches, collages) testify to the exploration artistic black-and-white to revisited mastery of particularly bright colors, intense and deep.
For Chagall, the dialogue between black and white and color begins in the twenties, when he discovered all the techniques of engraving in Berlin. On order of Ambroise Vollard, in the 1920s and 1930s, he illustrated the Fables of La Fontaine and the Bible. The artist then captures the color ranges of the landscapes of Auvergne and Palestine before apprehending the density and depths of blacks.
When he returned to France at the end of 1947, after the American exile, Chagall's work was enriched by his experience in Mexico and New York, which gave him a new plastic and monumental dimension. Always listening to his time, Chagall embarks on a daring journey where the interrogation of the volume leads him to explore the universe of lights, shadows, materials and transparencies contained in black and white.
This research around the chromatic and luminous subtleties of black and white results in the blossoming of bright and intense colors that renew his pictorial work. In a vast selection of works, from Indian ink wash, to white marble, plaster and bronze sculptures to ceramics, Chagall's universe is spread to a palette enriched with colors. All these materials explored by the artist allow the visitor to rediscover the world of the painter, draftsman, sculptor, ceramist and engraver by his exploration of color, and more particularly black and white, at the Hotel de Caumont to March 24 next.
Source : Hôtel Caumont
