Marc Chagall Research Paper

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Marc Zakharovich Chagall was born on July 7, 1887 as Moishe Segal. He was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, which was located in the Russian Empire. Chagall being born there made him a Belorussian. He was raised in a religiously Jewish environment with eight other siblings. He was the first born. His mother ran a shop that sold fish, flour, sugar, and spices, while his father worked at a fish warehouse. As a child, Chagall attended the heder, which is a Jewish elementary school, and later went to a local public school, where he was taught in Russian and educated on the elements of drawing. After public school, Chagall enrolled into St. Petersburg at the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts from 1907 to 1910 under Leon Bakst. Leon Bakst was …show more content…

Petersburg sponsor. He lived in a studio on the edge of town in a settlement for Bohemian artists. The settlement was commonly known as La Ruche or “The Beehive”. At La Ruche Chagall met various writers and artists, such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Albert Gleizes, and Robert Delaunay. Chagall quickly began to develop the poetic and advanced tendencies that had begun to arise in Russia at the time and not encouraged before. At the same time of the development of his major assets he was introduced to Fauvism and Cubism and came under the influence of the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Fauvist pictures he saw at museums in Paris. Fauvism is a style of painting with vibrant expressionistic uses of color, and Cubism is art made of simple geometric shapes and connecting planes, which was created by Picasso and Braque. In 1912, Chagall attended in annual French exhibits and staged his first solo show in 1914 in Berlin to great admiration. …show more content…

Valentina and Chagall’s marriage was happy and travelled a lot, mostly across the Mediterranean. While traveling, Marc became amazed with the Mediterranean culture. Chagall dedicated the 1960s to making mosaics, wall-hangings, sculptures, stained glass windows, and ceramics. He gained a lot of success during the 60s. He painted the ceiling for the Paris Opera in 1964. Chagall moved to a house-studio in the province of Nice-Saint-Paul-de-Vence. The house-studio was built specially for him. In 1972, he decorated the National Bank in Chicago. He decorated with the mosaic “Four Seasons”. He visited Moscow and Leningrad in 1973. He visited those to places because he was invited by the Ministry of Culture of USSR and showed his works in an exhibition in the Tretyakov gallery. He produced the American Windows for America’s Bicentennial celebration to show his gratitude towards America in 1977. He showed gratitude because during World War II he was provided with shelter for his family. Chagall was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour, the highest French decoration. Chagall died on March 28, 1985, in the elevator, after spending a whole day in his studio. He was 97 years old. He died “flying”, as he had portrayed himself in many of his paintings. He was mourned by the whole world. He outlived all of his friends. He is buried in Saint-Paul Town Cemetery, Provence,

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