It always interests me how my taste changes over the years. Marc Chagall was one of the painters that I absolutely loathed as a kid. I did not warm to him over the years. But yesterday I was browsing through a book store and came across a monograph. I was just starting to automatically filter it out but corrected myself to review it… and I loved it!
He made some great dreamy paintings. One of things that really struck me was how much like contemporary illustration his work looks. Quite surprising when you consider that he was working around 1914. His pictures feature strong symbolism and bright colour in bold collage-like compositions. Lovely.