Chagall's "Midsummer Night's Dream."
While this exhibition recalls many images long identified with Chagall, perhaps its main achievement is to underline the intense spirituality not only of his images of love and nature but also of those showing the ravages of war. In his heart he believed in humanity. "In order to continue to live," Jean-Louis Prat writes, "Marc Chagall gave this nihilist century a worthy concept: hope."
And what of this century? Nihilism and anxiety take new forms. As does hope...
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