Just got back from the Chagall exhibit at the SFMOMA. It was great. A really nice collection of his paintings. I wasn't that familiar with his work, excepting some of his later watercolors and a set of beautiful stained glass windows in the cathedral at Metz. So it was a treat to see so many of his works stretching out over a period of 70 years. Some of his earlier paintings incorporated text in Hebrew and Russian. One of the bulls in one of his murals for the foyer of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater bellows out his name in Yiddish, while he signed himself in Cyrillic. I also got to wondering how his Hassidic family felt about the overt Christian themes in some of his paintings (e.g., White Crucifiction). And some of his goats and cows looked quite pig-like. I'll have to get a biography and read about him.
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