L’Ange 1934 - 1935

This is L’Ange by Marc Chagall, and it’s a great example of how paint can become a portal to another world. Look at how the paint is applied: kind of scratchy, not too fussed, just getting the image down, right? And the colors - that deep, dreamy blue mixed with chalky white, and then punctuated with jolts of red and yellow – it all feels very intuitive, like he’s letting the painting just happen. There’s a real physicality to it. You can almost feel the energy of his hand moving across the canvas, dragging the brush to build up the form of the angel. I’m particularly drawn to the way he's painted the wings, using these thick, almost brutal strokes. It’s not about perfect representation; it’s about capturing the essence, the feeling of flight, of being otherworldly. The painting style reminds me of someone like Guston, who embraced this idea of artmaking as a raw, unfiltered expression of the artist's inner world. It’s a very particular vision, this angel, but that’s what makes it so compelling.