Haven Dearing
This painting is called Birthday,
by Marc Chagall, was created in 1915 and is an oil painting on card board. This
piece is very interesting and you can see the uniqueness of it. In the painting
there is a man and a woman who are about to kiss. The women is holding bouquet
of flowers and there is a cake on the table. Along with the cake is a knife,
glass, and plate with food on it. The walls in the room are white and the
carpet is red. There are 2 windows and 2 pieces of furniture plus a stool, and
outside the one window you can see a road and grass.
In the painting Chagall uses a lot of
warm colors, so much that one table sort of blend into the orangey red carpet.
One thing that definitely pops out to me is the man’s green shirt since it is
the only green thing in the room and it is against a white background. The
color of the man and women kind of make them disappear because they are so
pail. Also the colors blue and red are repeated several times, although red is
repeated more. It might have been made to look this way but much of the
painting looks flat although some of it looks real because of a 3-D effect.
Over all it is very unique and it’s quality is good.
In this painting, I believe what
the artist is trying to convey, or tell, is of his love between him and his
wife or lover. This painting was painted a couple weeks before him and his wife
were to be married. The couple in the painting are kind of flouting as if to
say that the love was like a trance and the girl swept him off of his feet. As
said at total history.com the painting conveys that feeling of Euphic love
between young levers in a blissful yet ordinary setting.
This painting is very power I
believe it because of what the artist is trying to say and the way he says it.
He uses a unique technic when he makes the man and women look in human almost
spirit like and everything is flowing. All of the colors and the placement of
the furniture and people make this painting flow. Also between the furniture,
colors, and the illusion of the position things it give off as if this image
was viewed in dream.
