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Magic Flutist. By far his most thrilling public work was the commission, assigned him by France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, to redecorate the ceiling at the Paris Opera. This vast pantheon to music swirls with 2,153 sq. ft. of ballet dancers, firebirds and blossoms banked like clouds in hot Midi colors that triumph over the surrounding Second Empire gilt moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall...
Hemorrhaging Angel. In 1942, Choreographer Leonide Massine, a fellow Russian, got him to design costumes and sets for the New York Ballet Theater's production of Aleko. Critic Emily Genauer recalls walking in on the two while they were trying to explore the project. Tchaikovsky's trumpets blared over a record player, while Massine dragged Chagall around the room in an unbelievable pas de deux,. Yet somehow the collaboration worked. The premiere, which took place in Mexico in 1942, was a smash success...
...Chagall could not long escape into the world of theater and ballet. The disasters of war inflamed him, and in 1943 he painted the Yellow Crucifixion. Amidst acidic yellows and greens, Vitebsk burns, a ship sinks, a ladder is half-posed to remove Christ from the Cross. In his Falling Angel, begun in 1923 and not finished until 1947, the whole world violently disintegrates, with a rabbi fleeing with the Torah and an angel hemorrhaging down through a tempest-torn...
...scored for a prodigious cavalcade of instruments including a glockenspiel, xylophone, a pair of cymbals, a suspended cymbal, tambourine, triangle, rasps, whip, wood block, three temple blocks, timpani, snare drum, bass drum and three bongo drums. Conductor-Composer Bernstein made the most of them; he went through his entire ballet routine on the podium and had the Philharmonic Orchestra playing like gods, and the Camerata Singers sounding like angels...
...only 14? in Turkish coins, worked as an engraver and house painter before achieving recognition for his meticulous drawings of humanized machines and mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris, illustrated more than 50 books, wrote two children's fables (Poor Shaydullah, Seven Simeons), designed ballet settings, women's clothes, murals, and a Parisian cathedral altar-all of which he created in the belief that "any object which is beautiful and useful" becomes...