The unexpected combination of poetic images reveals a similarity with the manner of surreal painting by M. Ernst and R. Magritte. The name is vague, borrowed from Ovid.
Winged fish, flying hours, frozen river, embracing lovers from now on become recurring motifs of his imaginative stylistics. Flying clocks embody the “winged” and transformed into eternity time. The clock was for the artist a symbol of death – taken from the Kabbalah, with which Chagall was well acquainted.
Changing the many-sidedness of the fantasy world invented by him, through the conditional, theatrical, the playful, attracts the viewer, awakens his imagination, evokes a whole complex of feelings and associations.
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