Length1h 21m
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Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was his “second Vitebsk”. At first, isolated in the little room on the Impasse du Maine at La Ruche, Chagall soon found numerous compatriots also attracted by the prestige of Paris: Lipchitz, Zadkine, Archipenko and Soutine, all of whom were to maintain the “smell” of his native land. From his very arrival Chagall wanted to “discover everything”. And to his dazzled eyes painting did indeed reveal itself. Even the most attentive and partial observer is at times unable to distinguish the “Parisian”, Chagall from the “Vitebskian”. The artist was not full of contradictions, nor was he a split personality, but he always remained different; he looked around and within himself and at the surrounding world, and he used his present thoughts and recollections. He had an utterly poetical mode of thought that enabled him to pursue such a complex course. Chagall was endowed with a sort of stylistic immunity: he enriched himself without destroying anything of his own inner structure. Admiring the works of others he studied them ingenuously, ridding himself of his youthful awkwardness, yet never losing his authenticity for a moment.
At times Chagall seemed to look at the world through magic crystal – overloaded with artistic experimentation – of the Ecole de Paris. In such cases he would embark on a subtle and serious play with the various discoveries of the turn of the century and turned his prophetic gaze like that of a biblical youth, to look at himself ironically and thoughtfully in the mirror. Naturally, it totally and uneclectically reflected the painterly discoveries of Cézanne, the delicate inspiration of Modigliani, and the complex surface rhythms recalling the experiments of the early Cubists (See-Portrait at the Easel, 1914). Despite the analyses which nowadays illuminate the painter’s Judaeo-Russian sources, inherited or borrowed but always sublime, and his formal relationships, there is always some share of mystery in Chagall’s art. The mystery perhaps lies in the very nature of his art, in which he uses his experiences and memories. Painting truly is life, and perhaps life is painting.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
63The Green Violonist
2Self-Portrait
64Birthday
3Biography
65Lilies of the Valley
4Kermis
66The Baby’s Bath
5My Fiancée in Black Gloves
67Lovers in Pink
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6Self-Portrait
68Lovers in Grey
7The Artist’s Sister (Mania)
69Bella with a White Collar
8Sabbath
70Self-Portrait at the Easel
9The Wedding
71Window Overlooking the Garden
10The Butcher
72The Grey House
11Jewish Wedding
73Double Portrait with a Wineglass
12Birth of a Child
74The Promenade
13Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
75The Cemetery Gates
14I and the Village
76Village Scene in Vitebsk
15The Violonist
77Self-Portrait with Muse (The Apparition)
16The Poet (Half Past Three)
78The Blue House
17The Yellow Room
79The Wedding
18Still-Life with Lamp
80The Dacha
19Russian Village Under the Moon
81Interior with Flowers
20Dedicated to My Fiancée
82Peace to Cottages, War on Palaces
21Apollinaire
83Costume Design for Nikolai Gogol’s “The Inspector General”
22Study for “The Rain”
84The Red Houses
23To Russia, Asses and Others
85Jew in Prayer
24Hommage à Apollinaire
86Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
25Le Saoul (The Drinker)
87Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
26The Cattle Dealer
88Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
27Golgotha
89Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
28The Soldier Drinks
90Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
29Soldiers
91Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
30The Fiddler
92Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
31Maternity (Pregnant Woman)
93Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”
32Paris Through the Window
94Soukkot (Rabbi with a Lemon)
33The Street Sweeper
95On the Road
34View from the Window, Vitebsk
96Jew Holding the Torah
35Barbershop
97The Circus Rider
36House in the Village of Liozno
98Self-Portrait
37Chemist’s Shop in Vitebsk
99Promenade
38Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Mariassinka
100Lovers
39The Street Sweeper (Janitor with Birds)
101The Cock
40Father
102The Acrobat
41The Newspaper Vendor
103Time is a River without Banks
42Jew in Green
104The Wall of Lamentations
43Self-Portrait
105To My Wife
44Over Vitebsk
106The Juggler
45The Clock
107The Revolution
46Self-Portrait with White Collar
108Wedding at the Eiffel Tower
47Lovers in Blue
109Madonna of the Village
48Lovers in Green
110Street in the Village
49Wounded Soldier
111Concert in Blue
50The Vitebsk Preacher
112Around Her
51A Soldier and a Girl
113Apparition of the Artist’s Family
52Man with a Cat and Woman with a Child
114The Cock in Love
53The Old Jew
115Wall Clock with a Blue Wing
54Street in Vitebsk
116By the Window at Night
55Soldiers with Bread
117King David
56Old Man and Old Woman
118Champ de Mars
57The House in the Suburbs
119Artist at Easel
58Over the Town
120The Circus
59Jew in Red
121The Triumph of Music
60Window at the Dacha, Zaolshye near Vitebsk
122Confidence at Circus
61The Poet Reclining
123The Sky of Paris
62The Mirror
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