Can anyone help me.I'm looking for information about this artist, although I'm not sure if I've spelt his name right.
2006-10-19 05:27:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985) Russian-born French painter and designer?
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2006-10-19 05:32:54 · answer #1 · answered by brainlady 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Chagall, Marc
(märk shgäl´) , 1887—1985, Russian painter. In 1907, Chagall left his native Vitebsk for St. Petersburg, where he studied under L. N. Bakst. In Paris (1910) he began to assimilate cubist characteristics into his expressionistic style. He is considered a forerunner of surrealism. After some years in Russia, Chagall returned to France in 1922, where he spent most of his life. His frequently repeated subject matter was drawn from Jewish life and folklore; he was particularly fond of flower and animal symbols. His major early works included murals for the Jewish State Theater (now in the Tretyakov Mus., Moscow). Among his other well-known works are I and the Village (1911; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) and The Rabbi of Vitebsk (Art Inst., Chicago). He designed the sets and costumes for Stravinsky's ballet Firebird (1945). Chagall's twelve stained-glass windows, symbolizing the tribes of Israel, were exhibited in Paris and New York City before being installed (1962) in the Hadassah-Hebrew Univ. Medical Center synagogue in Jerusalem. His two vast murals for New York's Metropolitan Opera House, treating symbolically the sources and the triumph of music, were installed in 1966. Much of Chagall's work is rendered with an extraordinary formal inventiveness and a deceptive fairy-tale naïveté. Chagall illustrated numerous books, including Gogol's Dead Souls, La Fontaine's Fables, and Illustrations for the Bible (1956). A museum of his work opened in Nice in 1973. His name is also spelled Shagall.
See his autobiography (1931, tr. 1989); biographies by J.-P. Crespelle (1970), S. Alexander (1978), and H. Keller (1979); studies by F. Meyer (tr. 1964), J. J. Sweeney (1946, repr. 1970), and W. Haftmann (1974).
2006-10-19 08:27:18 · answer #2 · answered by andigee2006 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marc Chagall brilliant artist !
2006-10-19 08:47:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you mean Marc Chagall. A great painter, originally Russian.
2006-10-19 05:34:13 · answer #4 · answered by Fiercehairdo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you may be looking for Marc Chagall.
2006-10-19 06:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by annie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋