Holy-day Art for "LENT" (Day #14) by Jewish artist Marc Chagall

ALGEMEINER
By Stephen Whitfield

"White Crucifixion" by Marc Chagall | Art Institute of Chicago

In 1938 he [Marc Chagall] produced a remarkable painting of Jesus on the cross. No other subject might suggest to believers in a risen Son of God what the co-religionists of Jesus were enduring in 1938, on a continent that the Third Reich was about to dominate and devastate.  The White Crucifixion occurs in the context of a pogrom, though the painter could scarcely be expected to have envisioned a Final Solution that would make Tsarist rampages seem an anachronism from a more civilized era. [link]