Bella Chagall Passes Familiar Icons On Her Way to Tupper Lake Hospital 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24" (Private collection of R.O. and S.H. of Indianapolis)
@wakeupkitty asked me to post more often in ART & ARTISTS, so I was perusing the group and wakeupkitty’s feed and found a recent post of hers-his with The Fiddler, a painting by Marc Chagall. I immediately thought to post a copy of the painting I made as a road sign to advertise for an exhibition of another painter I was hosting at my pop-up gallery (which is my house), back in 2019.
I couldn’t find it. But I did stumble across this painting I made of Bella Chagall floating on her way to die at Tupper Lake hospital in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.
Marc and Bella Chagall spent part of the summer of 1944 in the Adirondacks, at the Evergreen Hotel in Cranberry Lake, NY. This was and is heavy duty, isolated north country, WASP-ish in the first degree, and during World War II, and today would welcome broken English like Tojo on a trout lake.
The Chagalls came up from New York City. Marc made paintings (he used an unfinished room in the hotel as a studio), and Bella began editing her memoir. She contracted strep throat and died from the infection at Tupper Lake hospital.
Whenever I despair about being an artist in a Walmart wasteland, I think on the Chagalls braving the world as Russian Jewish immigrants during an era of fascism everywhere.
This summer Rose and I will take the 90 minute drive out to where the Evergreen Hotel once stood to pay homage to a great painter. We’ll walk and talk around Cranberry Lake musing over which stories will carry over to the imaginations of our descendants. Will my paintings survive the coming wars of the idiot in-groups?
The story is recounted in a 2019 Adirondack Life article by Lisa Breman.
Will your paintings survive the coming wars? Yes. There are many spread, cherished some might be hidden others will be in the memory forever. Some might try to copy what you made and even if they don't remember your name the paintings are real and have stories to tell. If not about someone it's about you or how it's made.
I never been at Walmart but it sounds as if I am not missing anything although I once hear that a part of the cashiers are pieces of art. I believe it was @jiva34 showing pictures.
Nasty times (did they stop at all?) but Marc and Bella live on thanks to this post and the one written by Lisa Breman (it's good to read something else than Wikipedia not always true or accurate news).
You more often drive to a place where artists stayed?
Perhpas if you write about it you can also pin that spot in Steem Atlas. Artistic places, memories, exibiotions, stuckism events being placed on the Steemit World Map.
Thank you for posting in the community and sharing your painting with the great stories.
I see a cat, fox and more animals they make me wonder especially the chicken playing the violin.
A great, colourful day!
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Every generation swears they live in the worst of times. I believe that any person born after the Manhattan Project is correct to suppose so. The only end to all life, barring giant asteroid impact, is human made. These last two generations are living in the worst of times because of potential nuclear winter.
Well, that’s a bummer, right? Best not dwell on it.
Thank you, I will check out Steem Atlas.
Walmart is just one of the big box store companies adding to the resource hoarding which Americans do with eclat. Lowes, Target, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby... They’re everywhere and the same, homogenizing the culture into a cement block landscape of medicinal gray. 330 million people bored out of their minds enough to shop for plastic anything and high sodium factory snacks galore. We are living science fiction.
Gimme my soma pill!
Hope your day and week are happy and complete!
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A great description. It's sad but it paints where we standing and how the use of brain is no longer needed. Busy and bored at the same time.
How bored would humankind be if hunting for food, building the own hut and surviving in the wild is needed?
It might be healthy and reminds me of some books.
I started testing my paint yesterday, it was colder than expected I still feel frozen.
Enjoy the weekend!
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“Busy and bored at the same time”... Wow, that is it exactly! I might steal that line for a title in the near future:)
What do you mean by “testing your paint. colder than expected”?
Thank you for the read, and powerful vote!
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Feel free to use it and if you paint with it don't forget to tag me. LOL
The paint seems to be affected by the cold (for a few years) I still haven't thrown it away so I tested what I can use. A bit strange is that the old paint is a thicker and better quality and the new paint of that brand is more like water.
There are lumps in it (not dried out) and it cost I tried to mix it but it stays in when I paint. This morning I thought that it might not be so bad. I'm not going to throw it away in any case. I still have to sort out a part, some strange colours in those little tubes. Maybe I'll smear it on a wall in the spring.
You are welcome, the team tries to vote for comments, art, skills, Europe and countries without an SC. It was a bit harder this week. It feels many left or are busy.
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Yes, I would definitely find a use for it . A wall is a good thing. I have paints dry up, just as you say, and begin to clump. Not enough walls in my neighborhood. When I am rich like Picasso, and living as a pauper, I will buy an old house with high ceilings and paint on everything. Old and new paints!
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What will you do with the dry paint? i will use it. Doubt it will get better if warm.
If you have that house
You can paint the walls, sdoors, floors, stairs and will be busy
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Yes, a good sized studio that second floor would make. The opposite of the basement I paint in now:)
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Thank you very much!
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