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Following the steps of art criticism can help you discover lots of
clues to really understand and appreciate a work of art.
The Steps of Art Criticism
Did you know that the color red in many restaurants is there only to
make customers hungry, and to encourage them to order more
than they normally would. Red walls and décor also cause
people to eat faster, since the color increases our normal
levels of energy.
What affect did the final location for the painting
(Shchukin dining room) have on Matisse’s color
and subject choice?
Matisse also limits his perspective in this work. He makes
breaks in the line around the table, frames the chair,
the window, and the little house in an innovative
manner by cutting them off, and encloses two of the
planes, the green and the blue in a window.
Judgment
a. description
b. analysis
c. interpretation
d. judgment
4. The artist is depicting his vision of Paris.
a. description
b. analysis
c. interpretation
d. judgment
5. The artist uses many colors.
a. description
b. analysis
c. interpretation
d. judgment
6. The artist successfully uses surrealistic imagery.
a. description
b. analysis
c. interpretation
d. judgment
7. The cat represents the artist looking out at Paris.
a. description
b. analysis
c. interpretation
d. judgment
•After Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910, his paintings
quickly came to reflect the latest avant-garde styles.
•In Paris Through the Window, Chagall’s Cubism is semitransparent
overlapping planes of vivid color in the sky above the city.
•The Eiffel Tower, which appears in the cityscape
•Maybe a metaphor for Paris and perhaps modernity itself.
•Chagall’s parachutist might also refer to contemporary experience,
since the first successful jump occurred in 1912.
•Other motifs suggest the artist’s native Vitebsk.
•This painting is an enlarged version of a window view in a self-
portrait painted one year earlier, in which the artist contrasted his
birthplace with Paris.
• The figure in Paris Through the Window has been read as the artist
looking at once westward to his new home in France and eastward to
Russia. Chagall, however, refused literal interpretations of his
paintings.
1913
20 August - 700 feet above Buc, parachutist Adolphe Pegond jumps
from an airplane and lands safel
y.
1914
3 August - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.
9 August - Battle of Mulhouse begins, the opening attack of
World War I by the French army against Germany.