Marc Chagall

Russian painter, 1887-1985
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Marc Chagall oil paintings
Red Nude Sitting Up
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21448
I and the Village
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21450
Bride with a Fan
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21451
The Soldier Drinks
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21452
Adam and Eve
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21453
The Cattle Dealer
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21454
The Spoonful of Milk
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21455
The Pinch of Snuff
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21456
Jew at Prayer
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21457
The Fiddler
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21458
The Flying Carriage
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21459
Self-Portrait
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21460
The Birthday
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21461
The Painter to the Moon
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21463
Cemetery Gates
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21464
The Praying Jew
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21465
Green Violinist
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21466
The Falling Angel
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21467
The Watering Trough
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21468
The Three Acrobats
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21469
Chrysanthemums
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21470
Lovers with Flowers
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21471
The Rooster
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21472
Lovers in the Lilacs
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21473
Solitude
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21474
Bouquet with Flying Lovers
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21475
White Crucifixion
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21476
The Three Candles
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21477
Madonna of the Village
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21478
The Juggler
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21479
Listening to the Cock
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21480
Exodus
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21481
Le Quai de Bercy
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21482
Bridges over the Seine
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21483
Music
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21484
Dance
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21485
War
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21486
Portrait of Vava
Marc Chagall
Item ID:21487
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Marc Zaharovich Chagall (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 - 28 March 1985) was an artist, born in Vitebsk, at that time part of the Russian Empire and now in Belarus. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

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 preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opera.

Before World War I, he traveled between St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.

He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. 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".


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