Greeting Card for 1968 1967

Marc Chagall made this greeting card in 1968 using lithography. The way he's put down the marks, it's like he's thinking out loud, right there on the stone. Looking closely, the blue feels like a memory, washed and faded around the black lines which pull the figures together. It’s this very physical act of drawing - the scratch of the crayon, the grain of the stone - that gets me. See how the black line isn't precious? It doubles back, corrects itself, like when you're trying to explain something and you circle around the point, hoping to catch it. Chagall reminds me a bit of Guston, actually. Both artists show us that art isn't about perfection; it's about the messy, beautiful struggle to make sense of the world. It’s about embracing the unresolved and finding poetry in the process.