Ekphrasis of "Le Repos," Marc Chagall, 1968
Ekphrasis of “Le Repos,” Marc Chagall, 1968 Do you remember your dreams? Chagall remembered his - in colors and forms surreal… In the foreground of an old village, a blue-faced, half-naked girl shares a smile with a floating, green-faced cow staring intently at her, while between them, an adult woman, bemused, thinks of blue-faced girl, perhaps herself in her youth, while tenuously holding a tiny human figure, perhaps herself as a child, while another flies towards the child with the open arms, perhaps herself loving herself, while a small hovering human holding a book, again green-faced, whispers poetry in the woman’s ear, while more figures in the orange-red sky surround her head - her musings given form and meaning… a human welcomes with open arms the love of a flying