Roses et mimosas 1960

Marc Chagall mixed oil paint with other media to create "Roses et mimosas," and you can almost feel the painting emerge, shifting through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with Chagall, imagining him standing before this canvas, thinking about color and memory, about how to hold onto something fleeting. I wonder if he ever felt like he was chasing his own tail with his brush! There’s a kind of urgency in the way the pink roses seem to float above the mimosas, as if he had to get them down before they disappeared. The paint is thin, almost translucent in places, allowing light to pass through and create a sense of depth. That blue fish at the top, with its knowing eye, reminds me of Joan Miró’s constellations, how artists are in this ongoing conversation, exchanging ideas across time, inspiring each other's creativity. For me, painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity, allowing for multiple interpretations.