‘One grows into the works,’ says Meret Meyer, as we stand before her grandfather’s paintings, marvelling at the figures that seem to dance and shimmer on the wall. ‘Everywhere there are metaphors.’ But above all, there is beauty.
A Russian Jew, Marc Chagall survived Tsarist pogroms, Soviet communism and the Nazi Holocaust. His long life was a mirror of the last century.
I do not want to be like all the others, I want to see a new world
Marc Chagall
Yet though his pictures are etched with grief, their overriding emotion is joy. ‘I do not want to be like all the others,’ declared Chagall. ‘I want to see a new world.’ He created a new world in his paintings. Thirty years since his death, his joie de vivre still shines through.
This big new retrospective of Chagall’s work attracted 340,000 visitors during its first run in Milan over Christmas. For the next four months it’s in Brussels, at the Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts. It covers the full sweep of Chagall’s career, from his poignant early paintings of village life to his florid designs for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, more than half a century later.
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