Marc Chagall

Among the celebrated painters of the 20th century , he is often associated with the Surrealist movement.

Marc Chagall ( , [shuh-GAHL]) (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian – French artist, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He created a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Chagall's haunting, exuberant, and poetic images have enjoyed universal appeal, with art critic Robert Hughes referring to him as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century." As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known paintings of our time. 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 United Nations , and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel . He also did large-scale paintings, including the ceiling for the Paris Opéra . His most vital work was made on the eve of World War I, when he traveled between St. Petersburg , Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his visions of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent his wartime years in Russia, becoming one the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avante-garde , founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. He was known to have two basic reputations, writes Lewis – as a pioneer of modernism, and as a major Jewish artist.

Marc Zakharovich Chagall ( / ʃ ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l / shə- GAHL ; 6 July [ O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian - French artist . 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"). 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". 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 Opéra . 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". Benjamin Harshav: Marc Chagall and his times: a documentary narrative . Chagall: A Biography Knopf, 2008 There are <ref group=nb> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

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, ceramic 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". 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 . 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 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". Marc Chagall and his times: a documentary narrative . Le lexique subjectif d'Emir Kusturica: portrait d'un réalisateur (in French). Chagall: A Biography Knopf, 2008 There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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. 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 a tough time 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". 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 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". The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences (1st ed.). Sieben Jahre der Fülle Leben mit Chagall (in German). Knopf, 2008 There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).