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elizabeth  ·  1650 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mark Chagall paintings make me queasy.

I quite like it. To me, his paintings have this childlike whimsy quality. And the places he paints remind me of villages in eastern europe, like the one my great aunt lived in at the border of Ukraine and Belarus. It's like a nostalgia for a time and place I've never been to.





mk  ·  1649 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That’s interesting. This is what I am talking about when I say that I know that I am missing something. I know that there is more there, at least for some people. Achieving genuine resonance is probably one of the most interesting aspects of art.

But as for “childlike whimsy”, did you see that girl in the bottom left?

elizabeth  ·  1649 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Peeing under the fence? it's a bit weird, kind of funny. But also an accurate depiction of regular simple life in a village i guess.

mk  ·  1649 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh. I saw her as crying.