Marc Chagall - The Synonym of painting

Birth name : Moishe Shagal
Born : July 7, 1887
Died : March 28, 1985 (aged 97)
Nationality : Russian-French
Field : Painting

Chagall took inspiration from Belarusian folk-life, and portrayed many Biblical themes that reflected his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s, Chagall engaged in a series of large-scale projects involving public spaces and important civic and religious buildings.

Chagall's artworks are difficult to categorize. Working in the pre-World War I Paris art world, he was involved with avant-garde currents, however, his work was consistently on the fringes of popular art movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism, among others. He was closely associated with the Paris School and its exponents, including Amedeo Modigliani.

Abounding with references to his childhood, Chagall's work has also been criticized for slighting some of the turmoil which he experienced. He communicates happiness and optimism to those who view his work strictly in terms of his use of highly vivid colors. Chagall often posed himself, sometimes together with his wife, as an observer of a colored world like that seen through a stained-glass window. Some see The White Crucifixion, which is rich with intriguing detail, as a denunciation of the Stalin regime, the Nazi Holocaust, and the oppression of Jews in general.

For more information about his art, see the list of Chagall's artwork.



His Artwork :





Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911, oil on canvas.


La Mariée by Marc Chagall, 1950.


Marc Chagall. Bella with white collar 1917


Birthday by Marc Chagall





The Blue House, 1917

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His Famous Quotes:

* "All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."

* "Great art picks up where nature ends."

* "I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension."

* "I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment."

* "If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste."

* “If I were not a Jew… I wouldn’t have been an artist, or I would be a different artist all together.”

* "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

* My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent."

* "Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?"

* "Will there be anymore!?"

* "We all know that a good person can be a bad artist. But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one."

* "Only love interest me, and I am only in contact with things I love."
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