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Helga King - The art of life. Marc Chagall and the magic of the circus, Ulrich Peters

This booklet contains a wealth of images I greatly respect of the painter Marc Chagall. Ulrich Peters has published it, the pictures, including several texts of different authors selected and told himself to read about Chagall and the magic of the circus. Instead of a preface has the opportunity, the poem "I love the circus Land" by this versatile artist to read and to the spread then to enjoy one of his wonderful circus images.

Peters in his lyrics always poems that the circus life to focus attention involved. Most of the poems are by Chagall himself and show that he was also an outstanding poet.

One of the poems I would play at this point because I think that this poem reflects his most enduring images.

"acrobats of the everyday

or How do we stay in balance

I dream that I am in a circus.

In the distance, around the bed

galloping horses, the circus riders.

The clown laughs ...

The acrobats balancing at heights.

you switch from one source to other hands.

you switch from one leg to the other legs.

you are blue and pink.

My circus played in heaven,

he plays in the clouds, between the chairs,

he plays himself at the window and reflected on the moon.

A pink acrobat wags her fan.

you call me.

you whisper to me, to live

again "

(cited Chagall The poem can be found on p. 27, p. 26, the pink acrobat to see an image detail)..

Peters leaves the reader know that Chagall valued throughout his life, the circus and therefore Crazy photos take center stage in his work. While other artists have also painted circus pictures, but his suggest that you ring in the middle of it sits around the circus and smells so to speak and hear the music (see: p. 8). We learn from the experiences of Chagall, which he made as a child with circus people and why has his first works with the circus life can be linked. Peters makes reference to a quote André Heller, in saying that contribute Chagall people almost always and everywhere a circus from the heart, (see: p. 10) and stated that was a metaphor for these artists of the circus in a sense the mirror of life itself. Chagall Idea of the circus opens up his idea of life in its purest form, (see: p. 11).

In essay-like reflections Ulrich Peters brings to the reader page after page to the circus in his profound way closer and closer. What happens when the curtain rises? Then one encounters a colorful world full of movement, full of blazing life, full of poetry, temperament and profundity. Then, too, takes place at the visitor a transformation. Then do the world in wonder ..., (see: p. 16). Peters recalls all that are visualized in Chagall's paintings: the jugglers, the acrobats, the trapeze artists, the musicians and the art of riding, (see: p. 29).

Chagall painted a picture which he called "The Juggler". With the image he wants to say clearly that the juggler has power over time. Peters suggested including Chagall's "The trapeze artist" The artists a quiet, very intimate picture was painted full of allusions. I endorse this view. It's fun to interpret the hints.

Peters writes in his reflections on course, clowns, Chagall painted over and cited on page 37 a poem by Henry Miller

"The clown teaches us how we

about ourselves to laugh.

And that laugh

is born out of tears "

defines the editor of the book:" To laugh tears in view of the twist of the object, to make us laugh in the face of the tragedy of the world and life, but despite the tears of people. is the secret of the clown, no matter whether as a poetic bird of paradise or rumbling dub "» weakness into strength, failure as a victory - the poetry of imperfection is the philosophy of the clown "(M. Kupferblum) to never give up its program," ( Quote: p. 38).

read How to be a Clown a good teacher, in terms of resilience, a term that has now booming.

Henry Miller wrote the afterword. It is full of poetry, like the whole book I recommend to all who dream like and have not forgotten how to love the colorful world of fantasy.

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