Gan G Integrates Parsha and Art
In keeping with our cross curricular approach, as we learn about Yaakov blessing his sons who represent the twelve Shvatim in the weekly parsha, we continued our artist study with Marc Chagall. He is largely famous for his stained glass windows depicting the twelve Shvatim, featured in Hadassah hospital in Israel.
Marc Chagall was a Jewish artist born in Russia in a small village named Vitebsk. His artwork is known for its dreamlike quality. People float and fly in his paintings to signify happiness. Most of Chagall’s artwork is not realistic.
Animals like sheep, cows & goats are often found in his paintings as well as musicians and instruments like violins or fiddles to remember happy times in the village with his favorite uncle Neuch.
Gan Gimmel created their own beautiful “stained glass windows”. The process involved water coloring the background and then drawing Jewish objects on laminated black arched frames cut much like the shape of the ones in the shul at Hadassah hospital.
