My Sonnet

A week has gone by that you’re in the ground

As Kansas said we’re all dust in the wind

Your voice is all but a remembered sound

But it’s something I’d like to hear agin’

One day your memory will become unbound

However it will never be forgotten

All the tears shed would form an huge mound

From all those who miss you that were saddened  

But eventually life will move in

And things will alter for the next round

Since the start this is what has always been

You would not want it taken with a frown

One day we’ll get to talk once more

Without these struggles and deplore

 

Mark Chagall: Autore d'elle

The piece I am writing about is by an artist by the name of Mark Changall. He was born in Vitesbk, Russia in 1887. He was the oldest of nine children. He had a wife named Bella Rosenfeld and had a daughter named Ida. Ms. Rosenfeld died of a viral infection in 1944.

I will be writing about the piece "Autour d'Elle, which was made by Mr. Chagall in 1945, shortly after his wife's death. It is said that he painted it to show his sadness about his wife's passing. It is also said that this started a new chapter in his paintings, one that showed a darker, sadder side.

I see the change in Mr. Chagall's artwork, from before and after his wife died. The paintings before she died are very colorful and cheerful, but after, they seem to be more mysterious. This is one of the few times that I think that a deeper meaning could be seen in something like this, if you looked close and thought about it enough.

The painting itself has a lot of interesting elements to it. For the most part, it is very dark, except for a small bird-like creature holding a candle in the upper left hand corner, and what looks to be like a village in the center of the painting. A man with an upside-down head is in the bottom left hand part of the piece and the man seems to be holding a painting palate.

I think that this shows how the last bits of happiness seems to be slipping away from Chagall's life. The bird creature holds a small candle, lighting up a small area of the painting. The village in the center of the painting could be Vitesbk, the town that Chagall grew up in,. where he had a lot of happy times. It is very bright, but storm clouds look to be closing in on it, indicating a turbulent time coming. The man with the upside down head could be Chagall himself, with the upside down head showing that the death of his wife turned his view of the world upside down.

What analyzing this painting showed me was that all things could be analyzed, but only some things have meaning. It really surprised me how Mr. Chagall expressed his sadness through painting, or even that he would continue painting after such a traumatic thing happened.

 Autore d'elle 

Mark Chagall 1945