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Marc Chagall [a] (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985 [b]) was a Russian and French artist. [c] An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as 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 ...
The Tree of Life) and daringly whimsical style were at the time considered groundbreaking. [6] Its frenetic, fanciful style [3] is credited to Chagall's childhood memories becoming, in the words of scholar H. W. Janson, a "cubist fairy tale" [7] reshaped by his imagination, without regard to natural color, size or even the laws of gravity. [3]
Bella Rosenfeld Chagall (Russian: Бэлла Розенфельд-Шагал, Yiddish: בעלאַ ראָזענפעלד) (14 December 1889 [1] – 2 September 1944) was a Jewish Russian writer born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire, nowadays Belarus, and the first wife of painter Marc Chagall.
Green Violinist is a 1923–24 painting by artist Marc Chagall that is now in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. [1] The work depicts a fiddler as the central figure who appears to be floating or dancing above the much smaller rooftops of the misty gray village below.
Ida was born on May 18, 1916, in Vitebsk, Russia, the only child of painter, Marc Chagall. [1] Her mother, Bella Rosenfeld (1895-1944), [2] was a Yiddish writer and a source of inspiration for her husband. The Russian Revolution had a profound impact on the entire family, including Ida. [3] [4]
The Painter and His Fiancée is an oil on canvas painting by Marc Chagall, from 1980. It is held since 1990 in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. [1] A double portrait from his final years, it depicts a nocturnal view of Paris, with a couple at the right, a painter, holding his palette, and a reclined woman. The couple, according with the title of ...
This article lists artworks produced by Marc Chagall (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985), a painter who is associated with the modern movements after impressionism. The listing follows marcchagallart.net [1] and Harris, The Life and Works of Chagall, [2] except where noted.
Writing in the Saturday Review, Judith Crist stated in that Homage to Chagall, "the filmmaker has made magical blend of sight and sound that transcends the screen in a triumphant tribute to humanism." Crist continues that Homage to Chagall "can be seen again and again, as it should. So masterly a homage to a master is a rare and wonderful ...