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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall as photographed in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten
Born
Moishe Shagal
NationalityBelarusian-Jewish
EducationSt. Petersburg Society of Art Supporters, Zvantseva School of Drawing and Painting
Known forPainting

Marc Chagall (Yiddish: מאַרק שאַגאַל‎; Russian: Марк Захарович Шага́л Mark Zakharovich Shagal; Belarusian: Мойша Захаравіч Шагалаў Mojša Zaharavič Šagałaŭ) (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French painter of Belarusian-Jewish origin who was born in Belarus, at that time part of the Russian Empire. He is associated with the modern movements after impressionism.



Quotations

Marc Chagall stained-glass window at the U.N. in New York City.
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Pasqualina Azzarello's tribute mural
  • "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."
  • "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."

References

Books

File:Pasqualina Azzarello mural detail.jpg
Mural dedication
  • Nikolaj Aaron, Marc Chagall., (rororo-Monographie) Reinbek 2003 (In German)
  • Benjamin Harshav, ed. Marc Chagall on Art and Culture, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003
  • Aleksandr Kamensky, Marc Chagall, An Artist From Russia, Trilistnik, Moscow, 2005 (In Russian)
  • Aleksandr Kamensky, Chagall: The Russian Years 1907-1922., Rizzoli, NY, 1988 (Abridged version of Marc Chagall, An Artist From Russia)
  • Jonathan Wilson, Marc Chagall, Schocken, 2007
  • Bill Wyman shoots Chagall (Genesis Publications, 1998)
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