It is always a great happiness for me when you come into contact with the beautiful. So on September 8, 2022, we managed to perform the first part of the Divertimento for string trio in E-flat major (1788) by V.A. Mozart (thanks a lot to Svetlana Petrova and Eduard Puzin). It happened at the opening of the amazing exhibition for Tyumen "Three Epochs of Marc Chagall" in the I. Ya. Slovtsov Museum Complex.
And when I managed to personally communicate with the collector and owner of PS Gallery Pavel Bashmakov (the gallery's collection includes works by Kandinsky, Chagall, Picasso, Dali, etc.), there was a wonderful state that I sometimes lack when I live in small towns, but this makes it all even more valuable and long-awaited.
Marc Chagall loved to work to music...
Violinist on the roof, trumpeter angels... Marc Chagall has created an impressive gallery of images related to music - from the ceiling of the Paris Opera to theatrical works. Virginia, Chagall's second life partner, recalled: "Music was absolutely necessary for him. There were no long-playing records then, and I had to rearrange the record on our little gramophone endlessly." As a result, the radio helped out: Chagall turned on the receiver and listened to music for his own pleasure. If the work went well, the artist sang, he could even drag out an aria from "Eugene Onegin".
Mozart was Chagall's favorite composer — the artist considered his music "harmonious, spiritual and religious."
"The Green Violinist" (1923-1924) - a musical violinist in Chagall's work, the leitmotif is stable and constant. Critics tend to recall the author's Jewish origin – a violinist musician in traditional culture accompanies all stages of the life of a Jewish family, although others interpret the green violinist more ephemerally as a symbol of human rebirth through art.
The presented work is one of the iconic, especially in composition: this is a complex polyphony, where different plans, images and plots merge together.
The main character stands out not only for his size, but also for his color scheme – a green face, dark blue hair and beard, a bright yellow-red violin in his hands. Two young men stare at him in fascination. A colorful musician, who started dancing, distracts the viewer from the background, and in the meantime, amazing things are also unfolding there - Chagall presented all the changes of the year, from green summer to snowy winter.
Everything in this work is worthy of the epithet "too much" - too saturated colors, too extraordinary plot, too colorful character, but this is the main strength of the picture, its dynamics and powerful energy.
