Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) The Creation of Man (detail), 1956-1958 - Oil on canvas. H. 299 ; l. 200 cm - Nice, musée national Marc Chagall The painting is organized in two registers like the classical altarpieces, which is what it must have been in the original project for the chapel of the Calvary of Vence. Above, in the sky invaded by yellow light, a swirling sun, whose colors evoke the orphism of Delaunay, whom Chagall knew in Paris during his years of apprenticeship, drags the Jewish people and episodes from biblical history in its wheel. Christ on the Cross is one of them: his
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