Marc Chagall Biography Videos
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Adalah Marc Chagall (Mark Zakharovich Shagal) (1887 - 1985)
Modern Russian/French. Influenced by Cubism, Fauvism & Surrealism.
‘My art is an extravagant art, a flaming vermilion, a blue soul flooding over my paintings’
Clearly the magic of Marc Chagall is in the images of childhood memories that float through many of his works. Untainted by acquaintance with modern experiments, Chagall’s work is honest and direct in its revelation of the artist’s character.
We know him to have been a gentle, caring and passionate lover - the timeless image of himself and his beloved Bella in The Birthday (1915) sends our heart soaring to float with him on a cloud of ecstasy. We are sure of his devout relationship with his Jewish faith - numerous Chagall works draw on Jewish symbolism and reference Judaism including stained-glass masterpieces like The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1960-62); and we know that his heart was eternally connected to his childhood home of Vitebsk - nostalgic images of this small provincial ghetto in Russia are the backdrop to many of Chagall’s best known works such as I and the Village (1911) a painting in which clear Cubist influences fracture the picture plane like a stained-glass window, and an atmosphere of fantasy envelops us as dreamlike images seem to float above the ground, dispensing with the conventions of space and perspective.
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