Pinehurst, NC
H: 910-215-9216
ravi@pinehurst.net
Travel Regions: Statewide
Vivian R. Jacobson has been a lecturer on the artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) at the local, national, and international level from 1978 to the present. Ms. Jacobson has done postgraduate work in French language, culture, and literature at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She was the past president of the American Friends of the Chagall Biblical Message Museum in Nice, France (1978-1982) and chair of the Friends of Chagall Tapestry (1982-1986), which was presented to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Ms. Jacobson worked with Chagall on various major international projects during the last 11 years of his life.
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Chagall and the Bible
From his earliest years in Vitebsk, Belarus until his later life in St. Paul de Vence, France, Marc Chagall was always fascinated by the Bible. This lecture will cover the 12 major works, from Genesis and Exodus and the five Song of Songs paintings, inspired by his second wife, Vava Chagall. These paintings have been on permanent display since 1963 at the Chagall Biblical Message Museum in Nice, France. The lecture will include slides of the stained glass windows of the Creation of the Earth, the Chagall harpsichord, the love story of Rebecca and Isaac, and the mosaic of The Prophet Elijah, and a tapestry. It is through the integration of art, music, and the Bible that Chagall believed there would be world peace. Included in this presentation are the readings of the Old Testament relevant to the 19 major works.
Chagall and the Women in His Life
The story of the women in Marc Chagall's life and how they influenced him to become one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century is a fascinating one. This lecture includes slides of paintings influenced by each woman (his grandmother, mother, six sisters, his two wives, Bella Rosenfield and Vava Brodsy, his companion , Virgina Haggard, his daughter Ida Chagall, and his granddaughters, Bella Meyer and Meret Graber) and includes selections from the writings of Bella Rosenfield and Marc Chagall.
The Jerusalem Windows: The Twelve Tribes of Israel ( Jerusalem, Israel)
Among the crowning achievements of Marc Chagall's work in the last named genre
were the 12 stained glass windows he designed for the Hadassah-Hebrew
University Medical Center in Jerusalem in 1959-61. Each of the windows
represents a tribe of Israel. Chagall filled them with a dazzling
assembly of animal forms, heavenly bodies, and other elements symbolic
of each tribe. The presentation includes slides and relevant readings
from Genesis and Deuteronomy.
Requirements for Program: lectern with a light and microphone, slide projector, carousel and remote, very large screen or large white wall
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