Chagall’s Lovers Seduce; Iran’s Art Surprises: Review
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A man and a woman are entangled, embedded within a sea of flowers, her nude round breasts like grapefruit. Marc Chagall’s heady, dreamlike bouquet, “Lovers Among the Lilacs,” (1930) is mystical, redolent, erotic.
This painting and other ecstatic works mixing figures and flora, in which animals and angels watch over couples who glow like full moons, greet you inside “Chagall: Love, War and Exile” at The Jewish Museum.