Marc Chagall
- Introduction
- Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with 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. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). 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, 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. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern Europe and 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 1923. 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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- Q93284
- Introduction
- Chagall was a prolific artist who was famous for his use of color and folkloric imagery. He preferred to be known as a Belorussian artist; however, following his exile from the Soviet Union in 1923 he was known as a major figure of the French École de Paris. Artist, b. in Russia, lived in France. Comment on works: religious, genre,
- Nationalities
- Belorussian, French, Russian
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Ceramicist, Writer, Designer, Glass Designer, Genre Artist, Illustrator, Painter, Sculptor
- Names
- Marc Chagall, Mark Shagal, Mark Zakharovich Shagal, Moses Shagal, Mark Sacharovich Schagal Chagall, Marḳ Shagal, M. Shagal, Syagal, Marŭkkŭ Syagal, Mark Shahal, Moshe Segal, Марк Шагал, מארק שאגאל, מ. שאגאל, מרק שגל, Chagall, m. chagall
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Exhibitions
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505: Circa 1913
Ongoing
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Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
Oct 19, 2011–Feb 12, 2012
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Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance
Mar 11–Sep 7, 2009
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Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part One
Jan 26–Apr 24, 2006
MoMA
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Artists & Prints: Part 3
Jul 20–Sep 26, 2005
MoMA
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Marc Chagall has
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Marc Chagall Standing Nude (1904)
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Marc Chagall Vaslaw Nijinsky (1911)
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Marc Chagall I and the Village 1911
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Marc Chagall Calvary 1912
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Marc Chagall Golgotha 1912
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Marc Chagall Maternity (1912)
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Marc Chagall Birthday 1915
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Marc Chagall Study for Birthday 1915
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Marc Chagall Homage to Gogol. Design for curtain for Gogol festival 1917
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Marc Chagall A mayse mit a hon. Dos tsigele (A Story about a Rooster; The Little Kid) 1917
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Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, Unknown Artist Brochure for Schomir Publishing House 1918
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Marc Chagall Iskusstvo Marka Shagala (The Art of Marc Chagall) 1918
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Marc Chagall The Musician (Der Musiker), supplementary print from My Life (Mein Leben) (1922)
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Marc Chagall Man with Basket 1922
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Marc Chagall Feast Day (1922)
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Marc Chagall Circus Performer 1922
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Marc Chagall Man with Hen (L'Homme à la poule) 1922
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Marc Chagall Lovers by the River 1922
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Marc Chagall The Father (Der Vater) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Mutter und Sohn (Mother and Son) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall The Grandfathers (Die Grossväter) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall The Grandmother (Die Grossmutter) from My Life((Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Pokrowskaja in Witebsk from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Birth (Geburt) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Fire in the City (Feuer in der Stadt) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall House in Peskowatik (Haus in Peskowatik) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall The Talmud Teacher (Der Talmudlehrer) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Dining Room (Speisezimmer) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall House in Witebsk (Haus in Witebsk) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Grandfather's House (Haus des Grossvaters) from My Life ((Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall An Old Jew (Ein alter Jude) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall At the Gate (Vor dem Tore) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Lovers on the Bench (Liebende auf der Bank) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall The Wedding (Hochzeit) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Self Portrait (Selbstportrait) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Before the Easel (An der Staffelei) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, publsihed 1923
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Marc Chagall At Mother's Grave (Am Grabstein der Mutter) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Father's Grave (Grab des Vaters) from My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Troyer 1922
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Marc Chagall Self-Portrait with Goat (Auto-portrait avec chèvre) 1922–23
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Marc Chagall On the Stove (Sur le poêle) 1922-23
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Marc Chagall My Life (Mein Leben) 1922, published 1923
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Marc Chagall Untitled from My Life 1922, published 1923 (hand additions executed 1946)
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Marc Chagall, David Bergelson, Dvorye Chorol Shtrom (Stream), nos. 1-4 1922-1923
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Marc Chagall, David Bergelson, Dvorye Chorol Shtrom, no. 1 1922-1923
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Marc Chagall, David Bergelson, Dvorye Chorol Shtrom, no. 2 1922-1923
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Marc Chagall, David Bergelson, Dvorye Chorol Shtrom, no. 3 1922-1923
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Marc Chagall, David Bergelson, Dvorye Chorol Shtrom, no. 4 1922-1923
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