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Remember the giant pink plastic sculpture of a "Young Hare"
sitting on top of the canopy over the entrance of the Albertina museum?
For a moment I thought I had spotted a smaller version of it,
there on the stairs, hopping away.
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No hare, but Marc Chagall's wife, Bella,
was taking flight up there, at the top of the stairway.
Photographed 25 May 2016
Images and Text © by Merisi
March Chagall's "The Promenade" (1917-1918)
St. Petersburg. The Russian Museum
Currently in exhibition, until 26 June 2016, at Vienna's Albertina Museum
Link -> CHAGALL TO MALEVICH - THE RUSSIAN AVANT GARDES:
"130 masterpieces by Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, and Marc Chagall illustrate fundamentally different styles and their dynamic development from primitivism to cubo-futurism and on to suprematism, as well the chronological parallels between figurative expressionism and pure abstraction."
Oh fabulous ! A wonderfully clear picture of a vision hard to catch.
ReplyDeleteI am so annoyed that I shall miss the Chagall expo, as not in Wien until November. This pic is marvellous.
I will have to scramble myself not to miss it! Feel like the Romans do, where the Vatican is so omnipresent, always there, that they miss visiting the museums entirely. ;-)
DeleteHa, I knew the hare was a figment of your imagination, although, If I remember correctly, Dürer's hare is in the Albertina.
ReplyDeleteYou're right in both cases! xox
DeleteWell captured, dear Merisi!
ReplyDeleteThe Albertina seems to be a very welcoming place. Decorating the steps surely must lessen the incline's challenge for less fit visitors. xo
Big secret: There's also an elevator and an escalator if one wishes to avoid the steps. ;-)
DeleteAmazing work on those steps. I've seen that done on a couple of staircases here.
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of Chagall!
ReplyDeleteVery creative work on those stairs.
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