Le cheval bleu 1948

Marc Chagall made this painting, *Le cheval bleu*, using dreamy blues and reds. Can you imagine him working on this canvas? I wonder what it was like for him to create this world of floating figures and animals? It seems that he might have begun with broad strokes of blue, then added the lovers in the foreground and the horse towering above them. The paint looks thin, almost like a wash, allowing the figures to blend into the background. It’s like a memory, hazy and surreal. The blue horse stares out at us with a knowing expression. What’s he thinking? I can relate to these characters, how they are not so different from you and I as we go through life, dreaming and feeling. Chagall creates a space where anything is possible, much like in our own imaginations. Painting, like dreaming, is an act of making, always open for revisions and new ideas!