"include fish motifs ""out of respect for his father"", writes Chagall biographer, Jacob Baal-Teshuva. Chagall wrote of these early years: One of the main sources of income of the Jewish population of the town was from the manufacture of clothing that was sold throughout Russia. They also made furniture and various agricultural tools. From the late 18th century to the First World War, the Russian government confined Jews to living within the Pale of Settlement, which included modern Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, almost exactly corresponding to the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth recently taken over by Imperial Russia."
"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"". Marc Chagall was born Moishe Segal in a Lithuanian Jewish Hassidic family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk (Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire) in 1887. At the time of his birth, Vitebsk's population was about 66,000, with half the population being Jewish. A picturesque city of churches and synagogues, it was called ""Russian Toledo"", after a cosmopolitan city of the former Spanish Empire."
"Marc Chagall Marc Zakharovich Chagall ( ; born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, 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"" (though Chagall saw his work as ""not the dream of one people but of all humanity""). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be ""the"
"in 1992, the museum organizes expositions of graphic works by Chagall (lithographs, xylographs, etchings, aquatints). The museum owns the series of illustrations to Nikolai Gogol's poem ""Dead Souls"" (1923–1925), the series of colour lithographs on the theme of the Bible, made in 1956 and 1960, the cycle of colour lithographs titled ""The 12 Tribes of Israel"" (1960) and other Chagall works. Marc Chagall Museum The Marc Chagall Museum () is a museum dedicated to the painter Marc Chagall, located at his childhood home in Vitebsk, Belarus. The artist's father built the house on Pokrovskaia street in the beginning of the"
"Marc Chagall Museum The Marc Chagall Museum () is a museum dedicated to the painter Marc Chagall, located at his childhood home in Vitebsk, Belarus. The artist's father built the house on Pokrovskaia street in the beginning of the 20th century and Marc Chagall spent his childhood there. Chagall tells about this period of his life in the autobiography ""My Life"". Inaugurated in 1992, the Museum gathers articles of family life of the boundary of the 19th-20th centuries, as well as copies of archival documents and works by Chagall relating to the artist's and his family's life in Vitebsk. Created"
"it was discovered that the picture was by an almost forgotten artist ..."" Charles Joshua Chaplin Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825 – 30 January 1891) was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women. Charles Joshua Chaplin was born on 8 June 1825 in Les Andelys, Eure, France. His mother, Olympia Adelle Moisy, was French, whereas his father, John Chaplin, was an art broker from England. Charles"
"Charles Joshua Chaplin Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825 – 30 January 1891) was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women. Charles Joshua Chaplin was born on 8 June 1825 in Les Andelys, Eure, France. His mother, Olympia Adelle Moisy, was French, whereas his father, John Chaplin, was an art broker from England. Charles Chaplin spent his whole life in France, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1886."
"Marc Chagall and Oskar Kokoschka, and motivated by the everyday life of the Polish Jews. He painted in water colors, practiced copper plate engraving and etching. His art-works were exhibited in Berlin, Dresden, Tel Aviv, New York City and Łódź. Henoch Barczyński Henoch (Henryk) Barczyński (born December 15, 1896 in Łódź - d. March 14, 1941 (?) in Tomaszów Mazowiecki) was a Polish painter of Jewish descent, graphic artist, illustrator. Henoch Barczyński was a son of Szmul Barczyński, tailor, and Sara née Parzęczewska. In years 1912-14 he studied graphics in Jakub Katsenbogen's drawing school in Lodz. Later he was a"
"of a book by Hugues Delorme published in 1939. Books that Egli illustrated include: Citations Sources Charles Émile Egli Charles Émile Egli (known as Carlègle; 30 March 1877 – 11 January 1937) was a Swiss-born illustrator and painter who spent most of his life in Paris. Charles Émile Egli was born in Aigle, Switzerland on 30 March 1877. He was educated in Aigle and then at the college of Vevey. When he was eighteen he attended engraving classes of Alfred Martin at the school of industrial arts in Geneva. Four year later he moved to Paris, where he stayed the"
"Charles Émile Egli Charles Émile Egli (known as Carlègle; 30 March 1877 – 11 January 1937) was a Swiss-born illustrator and painter who spent most of his life in Paris. Charles Émile Egli was born in Aigle, Switzerland on 30 March 1877. He was educated in Aigle and then at the college of Vevey. When he was eighteen he attended engraving classes of Alfred Martin at the school of industrial arts in Geneva. Four year later he moved to Paris, where he stayed the rest of his life. Egli studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. Egli adopted the pseudonym of"
"style is credited to Chagall's childhood memories becoming, in the words of scholar H.W. Janson, a ""cubist fairy tale"" reshaped by his imagination, without regard to natural color, size or even the laws of gravity. I and the Village I and the Village is a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall. It is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The work is Cubist in construction and contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space. In the foreground, a cap-wearing green-faced man stares at a goat or sheep with the image of"
"Musée Marc Chagall The Musée Marc Chagall (National Museum or Chagall Biblical Message) is a French national museum dedicated to the work of painter Marc Chagall - essentially his works inspired by religion - located in Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes. The museum was created during the lifetime of the artist, with the support of the Minister of Culture André Malraux, and inaugurated in 1973. It is also known as the ""National Museum Marc Chagall Biblical Message"" (""Musée national message biblique Marc Chagall"") as it houses the series of seventeen paintings illustrating the biblical message, painted by Chagall and offered to"
"Fiesole in 1982. Élisabeth Chaplin Élisabeth Chaplin (17 October 1890, Fontainebleau, France – 28 January 1982, Fiesole, Italy) was a French/Tuscan painter in the Nabis style. She is known for her portraiture and Tuscan landscapes, most of which reside in the Pitti Palace’s Gallery of Modern Art collection in Florence. She has two self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor collection. Chaplin came from a family of painters and sculptors. Her mother was Marguerite de Bavier-Chauffour, a poet and sculptor. Her uncle was Charles Joshua Chaplin, a French painter and engraver. Charles Chaplin conducted art classes specifically for women at his studio."
"things (objects, animals, human beings) in a certain order in which logic and illustration have no importance. The visual effect of the composition is what is paramount’. The painting served as inspiration for an ensemble from the Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015 Show. Chagall's Russian ancestry provided a leitmotif for the embellishments that are central to the designer's aesthetic. Soleil dans le ciel de Saint-Paul Soleil dans le ciel de Saint-Paul (French for ""Sun in the sky of Saint-Paul"") is a painting in oil on canvas, 73 × 115.5 cm, created in 1983 by Russian-French artist Marc Chagall. It is"
"sheets. Although the stamps all portray his various masterpieces, the names of the artwork are not listed on the stamps. There were also several major exhibitions of Chagall's work during his lifetime and following his death. During the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, a Chagall-like float with clouds and dancers passed by upside down hovering above 130 costumed dancers, 40 stilt-walkers and a violinist playing folk music. Marc Chagall Marc Zakharovich Chagall ( ; born Moishe Zakharovich Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with"
"experiment all the time. And I rely on intuition.' ""Miss Chernogolova studied at the arts faculty of the Vitebsk University, home town of Marc Chagall, graduating in 1982; and like him she once made her gallery entrance on a white horse. As a Russian artist she began as a socialist realist and in 1989 was elected to the USSR Union of Artists. But with ""perestroika"" and the break-up of the Soviet Union she became free to express herself more exuberantly and her paintings and drawings can now be found in private collections and public galleries in Belarus, Poland, Germany, Sweden,"
"I and the Village I and the Village is a 1911 painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall. It is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The work is Cubist in construction and contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space. In the foreground, a cap-wearing green-faced man stares at a goat or sheep with the image of a smaller goat being milked on its cheek. In the foreground is a glowing tree held in the man's dark hand. The background features a collection of houses next to an Orthodox church, and an"
"Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio is a 1945 gouache painting by the Russian-born artist Marc Chagall. The 20-inch by 14-inch work was created by Chagall in response to the devastation brought by the Holocaust; its imagery consists of a crucified Jesus Christ screaming at a Nazi storm trooper while other acts of violence – another crucifixion, a man being hanged and an adult male stabbing a child – can be seen in the background while an inverted clock falls out of the sky. Chagall kept the painting in his personal collection. It was initially sold by the"
"composers. The National Academic Theatre of Ballet in Minsk was awarded the Benois de la Dance Prize in 1996 as the top ballet company in the world. Rock music has become increasingly popular in recent years, though the Belarusian government has attempted to limit the amount of foreign music aired on the radio in favor of traditional Belarusian music. Since 2004, Belarus has been sending artists to the Eurovision Song Contest. Marc Chagall was born in Liozna (near Vitebsk) in 1887. He spent the World War I years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and"
"Élisabeth Chaplin Élisabeth Chaplin (17 October 1890, Fontainebleau, France – 28 January 1982, Fiesole, Italy) was a French/Tuscan painter in the Nabis style. She is known for her portraiture and Tuscan landscapes, most of which reside in the Pitti Palace’s Gallery of Modern Art collection in Florence. She has two self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor collection. Chaplin came from a family of painters and sculptors. Her mother was Marguerite de Bavier-Chauffour, a poet and sculptor. Her uncle was Charles Joshua Chaplin, a French painter and engraver. Charles Chaplin conducted art classes specifically for women at his studio. The American artist"
"artist’s son in 1985 to a private collector in France. In October 2009, it was purchased by the Ben Uri Gallery for US$43,000, despite estimates after the historical context correctly understood and researched by Ben Uri was released and recognised by the international community that it could be worth more than $1.5 million, and was publicly displayed for the first time in January 2010. Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio is a 1945 gouache painting by the Russian-born artist Marc Chagall. The 20-inch by 14-inch work was created by Chagall in response to the devastation brought by the"
"Charles McGill Charles McGill (1964 – July 9, 2017) was an artist based in Peekskill, New York. McGill attended School of Visual Arts and earned his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1989. He was an artist in residence in 1987. He was a classically trained painter that evolved into making sculpture. In the work McGill was best known for, he used found objects to create sculptures and performances, particularly with references to golf as a metaphor, to critique politics surrounding race, gender and class. Part of this work included a line of decorations and accessories for"
"CA, as well as others. In 1959, Weil was awarded the Dizengoff Prize for Painting. Shraga Weil Shraga Weil (; September 24, 1918 – February 20, 2009) was an Israeli painter. Weil was born in Nitra, Czechoslovakia in 1918 to a family of teachers, journalists and merchants. His father was a building engineer. He was sent to study with a local sculptor, and then to the Academy of Art in Prague. He produced his first graphic works during World War II, during which he spent as a prisoner. After the War, he sailed for Israel on an illegal immigrant ship."
"snowy streets, wooden houses, and ubiquitous fiddlers... [with] scenes of childhood so indelibly in one's mind and to invest them with an emotional charge so intense that it could only be discharged obliquely through an obsessive repetition of the same cryptic symbols and ideograms... "" Years later, at the age of 57 while living in the United States, Chagall confirmed this when he published an open letter entitled, ""To My City Vitebsk"": Why? Why did I leave you many years ago? ... You thought, the boy seeks something, seeks such a special subtlety, that color descending like stars from the"
"in Williamsburg, Virginia where Catherine, his daughter, is the custodian. Many of his works are now in private collections. Others were given by the artist to neighbors, friends, and handymen working on the Elam farm. Theodore Wildanger Theodore Wildanger, (May 1905 - 1989) was a painter born in France who later lived in Virginia. Some of his expressionist paintings are in the style of Marc Chagall. His credo was """"Art"" and Dreams have no Bounds."" A paperback book by Jim Kincaid, ""Theo"", was published in 1994. Theodore Wildanger was born May 25, 1905, in Aumetz in northeastern France to Pierre"
"landscapes in a primitive, emblematic style. Malcolm de Chazal Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his ""Sens-Plastique"", a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms and pensées. Chazal was born in Vacoas of a French family long established in Mauritius and wrote all his works in French. Except for six years at Louisiana State University, where he received an engineering degree, he spent most of his time in Mauritius where he worked as an agronomist on sugar plantations and later for the Office of Telecommunications. In 1940"
"1925 and 1930 at the Georges Petit gallery in Paris. Ernest de Chamaillard Henri Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, usually known as Ernest de Chamaillard, (9 December 1862, Gourlizon – 1931, Eaubonne) was a French artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven. The son of a lawyer, de Chamaillard also studied law but without much enthusiasm. As his real interest was painting, in June 1888 he went to Pont-Aven where he met Paul Gauguin. He quickly adopted Gauguin's Impressionism, joining the other painters in the group including Charles Laval, Émile Bernard and Henry"
"Joan Maragall Joan Maragall i Gorina (; 10 October 1860 in Barcelona – 20 December 1911) was a Spanish Catalan poet, journalist and translator, the foremost member of the ""modernisme"" movement in literature. His manuscripts are preserved in the Joan Maragall Archive of Barcelona. Maragall's upper-class family was dedicated to the flourishing textile industry in Barcelona, and after finishing school, Joan Maragall took on his father's job. Having never liked his family's trade, he decided to go to university instead, where he studied law to his father's great disappointment. However, he dropped out of school and married Clara Noble with"
"Paris in February 1837. He returned to Rome some time later to copy the pendants of the Sistine Chapel, but succumbed to an attack of cholera on 18 August 1837. Xavier Sigalon Xavier Sigalon (1787 – 18 August 1837) was a French painter. He was one of the few leaders of the romantic movement who cared more for treatment of form than of colour. Xavier Sigalon was born in born at Uzès, Gard, towards the end of 1787, son of a poor rural schoolmaster. With great difficulty he came to Paris and obtained admission to the studio of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin."
"gridiron pattern of the city's streets is an icon of simplicity (cf. ibid 127), while vertical steel construction of many stories is an icon of progress and innovation. Charlie Chaplin is regarded as a film icon. Born in London, and while not a U.S. citizen, he had a strong sense of belonging to American society. Chaplin became famous after starring in his first film, ""Making a Living,"" (1914). As a 10-year-old boy ""he worked as a mime on the British vaudeville circuit"". The fact that he was once very poor inspired his Tramp's trademark. He created a distorted version of"
"called the first syndicated cartoonist for his contributions to the weekly columns of humorist Bill Nye. His books include ""The Hidden City"" (1891) and ""The Rambillicus Book"" (1903). Walter Hugh McDougall was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of John Alexander McDougall (1810–1894), a painter and close associate of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving. Walt attended a military academy, and from the age of 16 was self-educated. He began his professional work in 1876 with the New York ""Daily Graphic"", which three years earlier had become the nation's first illustrated daily newspaper. He also sold"
"Charles-Raphaël Maréchal Charles-Raphaël Maréchal (1818–1888) was a French painter of the nineteenth century. Maréchal was the son of the glass painter Charles-Laurent Maréchal. Like his father, he was born in Metz, in 1881. He was trained in charcoal technique from a young age by his father and pointed toward an artistic career. He exhibited several times at the Salon (the official art exhibition of the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris), including in 1868. In 1872, the City of Metz bought the immense charcoal work ""Prayer In The Wilderness"", which Maréchal had produced for the Metz Exposition of 1861. Interested"
"Mike Chaplin Michael James Chaplin (Mike) NDD, RWS, RE, FRSA (born 19 September 1943) is a British artist, known primarily for his work in the mediums of etching and watercolour. He was guest art expert on the Channel 4 art programme ""Watercolour Challenge"" with Hannah Gordon. Chaplin was born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire, in 1943, and attended primary school in nearby Sandy. In the early 1950s, he moved with his parents and older sister to Harpenden in Hertfordshire. As a child, his love of art was already starting to develop. He attended St. Albans Boys' Grammar School, where he was"