Focus on Le Grand Cirque (1968 painting) and explain the Description.
On this painting, Chagall focuses on the ring or center stage as a mythical winged figures looks down upon the spectacle from on high. The subject of circus was dear to the artist. Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks. He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings. Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Rouault, Van Dongen and Léger. Le Grand Cirque (1968) is considered Chagall’s most grand exploration of the circus as a subject for his paintings.
Toulouse-Lautrec Seurat Picasso Léger Van Dongen Modern Rouault Post-Impressionist