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Sunday, March 12, 2006

Marc Chagall's Yellow Crucifixion (1943)




"This was one of several paintings Chagall did during this period in which he attempted to express the horror of the Holocaust by using the image of the crucified Christ in combination with overtly Jewish symbols.

In this way, he linked Jesus to the fate of the Jewish victims of Hitler and used the most powerful image of suffering in the Christian iconographic tradition to confront viewers with the cruelties being inflicted on Jesus's people."

Image used by Ian Wragg at Chilwell Road, 12 March

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