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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall was born in 1887 to a Jewish family that was poor in Russia. He was the oldest of nine children. Marc Chagall began to display his amazing artistic talent while attending and studying at a secular Russian school. Despite his raging fathers' disapproval, in 1907 he began studying art with Leon Bakst in St. Petersburg. It was, that at this time, his distinct style that is still known today, began to emerge. His paintings began to center on images from his childhood. This will focus and guide his artistic motivation for the rest of his life that had came to fruition. During the time of 1910, Marc Chagall had moved to Paris for about four years. It was during this period that he had painted some of his most famous paintings of the Jewish village, and had developed some of the features that became recognizable trademarks of his art. Strong and bright colors surround the world in a "dreamilke state." Nostalgia, religion, and fantasy became to fuse together to create the otherworldy images that seem to ammuse us today. Before the outbreak of World War I, in 1914, Marc Chagall had held a one-man show in Berlin, to exhibit work dominated by Jewish images. During the war, he had resided in Russia. Then in 1917, endorsing the revolution, he was appointed Commissar for Fine Arts in Vitebsk. The director of the newly established Free Academy of Art. When Chgall left Russia in 1922, he settled in France one year later. He lived there permanently except during th years of 1941 - 1948, when he ahd been fleeing France during the time of World War II. He resided in the United States. Marc Chagall's horror over the Nazi rise to power expressed in works depicting Jewish martyrs and refugees. To add on to the images of the Jewish world, Marc Chagall's paintings are inspired by themes from the bible. His fascination with the bible had culminated in a series of over 100 etchings illustrating the bible.. Which many had incorporated elements from folklore and from the religious life in Russia. Marc Chagall had first visited Isreal in 1931 for the opening of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Which was endowed with some of Chagall's work. Most noted the twelve stained glass windows at the Hadassah Hospital and wall decorations at the Knesset Chagall had received many prizes and much recognition for his work. He was also the one amongst the very few artist to exhibit their work at the Louvre in their lifetime. | |