Марк Шагал. Биография

Marc chagall

By Yatsko Alina

Mark Zakharovich Chagall (7.07.1887 -28.031985) was one of the most famous avant-garde artists, whose merits received worldwide recognition during his lifetime. He paid tribute to many trends of his time, marking the beginning of a whole direction of painting of the XX century — surrealism.

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He was a Russian-French-Jewish artist of international repute who, arguably, was one of the most influential modernist artists of the 20th Century, both as an early modernist, and as an important part of the Jewish artistic tradition. He distinguished himself in many arenas: as a painter, book illustrator, ceramicist, stained-glass painter, stage set designer and tapestry maker. Widely admired by both his contemporaries, and by later artists, he forged his creative path in spite of the many difficulties and injustices he faced in his long lifetime.

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In 1910, Chagall was in Paris for the first time, his patrons gave him money for the trip. Under the influence of new trends in art, the artist became interested in cubism, but his works were distinguished by freshness and originality. Guillaume Apollinaire was the first to define Chagall's style, calling his works surnaturel (fr. "supernatural"), and then surreal.

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Already a citizen of France, the artist came to Vitebsk in 1914 to visit his sister and stayed at home for eight years, experienced a brief fascination with the ideas of the revolution and even worked as an art commissioner. However, by 1920 the Soviet government had stopped approving avant-garde painting, and Chagall was barely able to travel abroad. He was leaving Russia with his wife Bella and little daughter Ida.

After 1950, the artist became interested in engravings, graphics, sculpture, stained glass, created a series of illustrations on Old Testament subjects. Chagall continued to work on his "Biblical Message" until the early 1970s, the works of the cycle now occupy an entire museum in Nice. The artist's work gained worldwide fame, the author's exhibition was held even in the Soviet Union, where Mark Zakharovich came in 1972 at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture.

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The most famous paintings by Marc Chagall

Engravings-гравюры
Artist were imbued with the amazing joy-художник проникся удивительной радостью
The motives can be traced-можно проследить мотивы
Kind of allusion of the gospel story-своего рода аллюзия на евангельскую историю
Gained fame-получил известность
Fade away-угасать
To emphasize-подчеркнуть

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Conveyed emotional uplift-передал эмоциональный подъемgeometric shapes-геометрические фигурыharbinger-предвестник

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Under the influence of Cubism, the artist wrote a whole cycle of works where geometric shapes serve as a means to emphasize the theme of the connection between time and space, characteristic of Chagall’s.

The master conveyed emotional uplift and love experiences with the help of images floating above the ground. The theme of flight was played out by him in many works: «Birthday» (1915)«Walk» (1917-1918)«Over the City» (1918) «Music» (1920).

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Marc Chagall became a harbinger of many trends in modern painting. The subjects of his paintings are deeply personal, but at the same time pure and spiritual, imbued with faith in the saving power of art, which stood out against the background of the work of artists of the modernist era.

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