Marc ChagallBielorrússia, França, 1887–1985Crucificação Branca
White Crucifixion
Sobre a pintura
A Crucificação Branca é uma pintura de Marc Chagall que retrata a crucificação de Jesus. Foi pintada em 1938 e agora faz parte da coleção permanente do Instituto de Arte de Chicago.
Nas palavras do museu
White Crucifixion is the first in Marc Chagall’s series of compositions that feature Jesus as a Jewish martyr and dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of Jews in 1930s Germany at the hands of the National Socialist Party. Chagall stressed Jesus’s religious identity by depicting him and the biblical figures above him in traditional Jewish garments. The surrounding images show the devastation of pogroms, violent attacks against Jewish communities often organized or sanctioned by local governments. Combining the Crucifixion with contemporary events, Chagall’s painting links the martyred Jesus with the Jewish people being persecuted across Europe and implicitly compares the Nazis with Jesus’s tormentors.
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Pormenores
- Número de inventário
- 1946.925
