Marc Chagall

Chagall, {{circa|1920}} Marc Chagall , ; ; ; ; .}} (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. and ''The New York Times'', as being Belarusian, from Belarus, or particularly representing Belarus in his artwork. Modern historiography and the Musée Marc Chagall also describe Chagall as having been Belarusian or of Belarusian origin. Chagall described himself as "" in a 1935 letter to Alexandre Benois, a term translated by Harshav as "Russian" and meant in the sense of language or ethnicity.}} An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.

Chagall was born in 1887, into a Jewish family near Vitebsk, today in Belarus, but at that time in the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During that period, he created his own mixture and style of modern art, based on his ideas of Eastern European and Jewish folklore. He spent the wartime years in his native Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College. He later worked in and near Moscow in difficult conditions during hard times in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution, before leaving again for Paris in 1923. During World War II, he escaped occupied France to the United States, where he lived in New York City for seven years before returning to France in 1948.

Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz as well as the Fraumünster in Zürich, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk." "When Matisse dies", Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is". Provided by Wikipedia
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by Chagall, Marc
Published 1962
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by Chagall, Marc
Published 1972
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by Chagall, Marc
Published 1987
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Published 1972
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by Chagall, Marc
Published 1981
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by Chagall, Marc
Published 2020
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by Chagall, Marc
Published 2016
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by Chagall, Marc, Goldberg, Itzhak
Published 2019
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Published 1995
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by Bartlema, Ruud, Bartlema, Ruud
Published 2016
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Published 1981
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Published 1986
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Published 1986
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Published 1979
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Published 1978
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Published 1981
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