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Marc Chagall.
La Mariée (The Bride).
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1950.
Gouache pastel.
Featured in the 1999 film "Notting Hill".
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Marc Chagall paintings often feature young women or couples, but few cast such a striking impression as Mariee, clothed in her bright red wedding dress.
Surely an ode to young love, this painting features a young woman in quasi-wedding attire with a bouquet of flowers being presented to the viewer in a bold
and conspicuous fashion, as if we were the ones marrying her.
Chagall’s works fit into several modern art categories. He took part in the movements of the Paris art world which preceded World War I and was thus involved
with avant-garde currents. However, his work always found itself on the margins of these movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism.
La Mariée is featured in the 1999 film Notting Hill. In the film, Julia Robert’s character Anna Scott sees a print of the painting in the home of Hugh Grant’s character,
William Thacker. Anna later gives William what is presumably the original. The painting was chosen because screenwriter Richard Curtis was a fan of Chagall’s work,
and because La Mariée “depicts a yearning for something that’s lost.”
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