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The Traveler was painted soon after the Russian Revolution, around the time that Marc Chagall was appointed commissar of the arts for Vitebsk, the site of Yehudah Pen’s academy, where Chagall had…
Contributor:
Marc Chagall
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1917
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I and the Village combines Marc Chagall’s memories of his childhood in Vitebsk with folklorist and abstract imagery to create what scholar H. W. Janson called a “cubist fairy tale.” The dreamlike…
Contributor:
Marc Chagall
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1911
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Veritas sequitur . . .
In the small beauty of the forest
The wild deer bedding down—
That they are there!
Their eyes
Effortless, the soft lips
Nuzzle and the alien small teeth
Tear at the grass
T…
Contributor:
George Oppen
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1965