Devant St-Jeannet

“What a marvelous era ours is, in which the greatest painters love to become ceramists and potters. The veil, then, of those who fire colors. With fire they create light. They learn chemistry with their eyes; they want matter to react for the pleasure of seeing. They become the glaze when the material is still soft, when it is still somewhat opaque, somewhat luminous. Marc Chagall is immediately a master of this satiny painting, which goes beyond the surface and inscribes itself in a chemistry of depth. And in stone, in earth, in clay, he knows how to preserve the vitality of his vigorous animalism; once again we have proof: he was destined to write fables, to inscribe fables into matter, to carve fabulous beings in stone.

And in Chagall life is so intense that fish, in their petrified pool, retain the swiftness of arrows. As free as the Chagallian birds who, enclosed in their cage of stone, continue to fly. Marc Chagall has so many images in his eyes that for him the past preserves its full colors, preserves the light of origins. Once again, everything he speaks he sees. Everything he meditates he draws, engraves, inscribes into matter, making it shine with color and with truth.”

Gaston Bachelard

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