Art No. 637
Artist : Marc Chagal
(1887-1985)
Marc Zaharovich
Chagall (/ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL) (6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful
artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in
virtually every artistic medium, including painting, 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". 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 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 avante-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". wikipedia
Lived/Active: New
York / France/Russian Federation
Known for: village
peasant theme paintings-abstraction, public art
Photo-Machanical.
Graphic L/E 56/500, Facsimile Signed
Title : Untitled
20" x 25"
Signed
Original Frame
$900
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