Belton, Texas – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Visual and Performing Arts and the UMHB Art Department are proud to present the exhibition Marc Chagall & the Bible August 23, through September 30, in the gallery of the Baugh Center for Visual Arts on the UMHB campus. A reception and art talk about the exhibit by Dr. Sarah Andyshak, UMHB Assistant Professor of Art History, will be held on Tuesday August 23, at 5:30 p.m. Both the exhibition and gallery talk are free and open to the public.
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is considered a pioneer of modernism, known for his use of color and his desire to share his Jewish heritage through his work. He is also perhaps the foremost visual interpreter of the Bible in the 20th Century. His art is filled with his own reoccurring symbols of visual memory and imagination. He said he did not see the Bible, but he dreamed it, even as a child.
Among the 45 pieces in this exhibition there are 10 of the 105 etchings originally intended to be illustrations for an Old Testament Bible and 28 brilliantly colored images from his 1956 and 1960 suites of Bible lithographs. Each is a delightful and colorful interpretation that lets the viewer enter the worlds of Chagall and the Bible.
It is most interesting that Chagall, a Russian Jew, would have used the Crucifixion in so many of his works, yet several of his pieces include the Crucifixion as a reference or the subject of his paintings. Mystical Crucifixion and Christ in the Clock, two colored lithographs in this exhibition, demonstrate his fascination with the theme.
On Tuesday August 23, at 5:30 pm there will be a reception and an art talk about the exhibit by Dr. Sarah Andyshak, UMHB Assistant Professor of Art History. Both the exhibition and gallery talk are free and open to the public.
The gallery of the Baugh Center for the Visual Arts is open 9:00 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information visit http://undergrad.umhb.edu/art/ or contact Hershall Seals at hseals@umhb.edu.
