Did you happen to notice the Chagall-style banner on Google this past Monday? Kudos to Google for remembering Chagall's birthday and giving him props. The late artist is one of art history's most beloved painters, celebrated the world over for his colorful, whimsical works.
If you haven't read up on Chagall, here's a nice, brief biography about his life, art and loves:
As you can see in this video, and of course in the artist's work as well, love played a key role in Chagall's creative inspiration. He is quoted as having once said, "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." For Chagall, love, life and art were all intricately interwoven.
Here is one of the artist's most famous works, I and My Village:
Goats, donkeys, lovers, flowers, vivid colors -- these are all the hallmarks of Chagall's joyful paintings. Viewing all things with equal tenderness, Chagall even saw the colors on his palette as as friends: "All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."
So a happy, happy belated birthday to Marc Chagall! Here's another great quote to end with:
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works;
if from the head, almost nothing. - Marc Chagall
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