Marc Chagall: “Great art picks up where nature ends”

Marc Chagall

In the Mind of Great Artists

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“Great art picks up where nature ends”
Marc Chagall

This thought is Expressionist and coincides with the qualities that define the art of Chagall and the Avant-garde movements we can relate him to. It is the way to see art that changes everything towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. It is the concept that determines the beginning of Modernity.

Throughout history, painting has represented nature, the visible world, with a higher or lower degree of idealization, but always nature. In conclusion, everything that is external to the artist.

The 20th century is defined by a fundamental change in the understanding of art: The sense of art is no longer the search of beauty but the search of truth. That truth that is under the surface of things and in the artist’s inner world. A truth that can be an expression of beauty.

Image: The Wedding Candles (1945)

Recommended links:

The Bride and Groom of the Eiffel Tower (1938-39).

The Fundamental Difference Between the Absurd and the Magical Realism.

Chagall and Magical Realism.

The School of Paris.

The Touch of Marc Chagall.

Expressionism.

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