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Happy Rosh Hashanah and Shanah Tovah! This Jewish New Year we are honoring a world renowned Jewish artist Marc Chagall. Chagall’s freeform style and dreamlike paintings, grounded in the everyday life of Jewish people in Russian villages, rebelled against both conservative aesthetics and those of the establishment avant-garde. Chagall and poet Blaise Cendrars became intimate friends at La Ruche. The poet promoted Chagall’s early career and assigned titles to many of his iconic works, including “I and the Village” (1911), reproduced here in black and white. In Cendrars’s facing text, the poet praises Chagall for his unmediated rendering of reality—as if he painted a cow with a cow, not with a brush—something Cendrars aspired to in his poetic diction. __ Expressionismus, die Kunstwende / Berlin : Verlag der Sturm, [1918], p. 20 "Marc Chagall" poem by Cendrars and p. 21: Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911, PML 198778.1 The Morgan Library & Museum, Photography by Janny Chiu, 2023. © Blaise Cendrars/Succession Cendrars © Marc Chagall / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #RoshHashanah #BlaiseCendrars #MarcChagall #HappyNewYear #MorganLibrary