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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
1Chagall
2© Confidential Concept, worldwide, USA © Sirrocco, London, UK
3July 1915
4Biography
5Birth of his daughter Ida.
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6Egypt. Exhibitions in Paris, Brussels and New York.
7Carnegie Prize (USA).
8Exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
9Publication of the Bible with illustrations by Chagall.
10Exhibitions in Japan.
11unusual painter of the twentieth century, who at
121909 oil on canvas, 88 x 65 cm Kunstmuseum, Basle
131909 oil on canvas, 57 x 48 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
14the main work of reference, Franz Meyer
151909 oil on canvas, 93 x 48 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
161910 oil on canvas, 90 x 98 cm Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
17The Wedding
18serious essay by Efros and Tugendhold, The
191910 gouache on paper, 34 x 24 cm Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
20On the occasion of the exhibition at the
21Does Chagall totally defy historical or aes-
22The greatest inspiration, the most perceptive
231911 oil on canvas, 128 x 107 cm Royal Collection, The Hague
241911 oil on canvas, 94.5 x 69.5 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
25all advance in thought, then the critical
26The Poet (Half Past Three)
27About 150 paintings and graphic pieces by
281911 oil on canvas, 126 x 104 cm Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich
29This primordial outpouring of creativity
301911 oil on canvas, 196 x 114.5 cm Kunstmuseum, Bern
31French translation by Bella Chagall. Providing us
32Study for “The Rain”
33To Russia, Asses and Others
341911-1912 oil on canvas, 109 x 198 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
35it a portrait of the composer Rubinstein. This
36The transmission to the very core of the
37oral means. Each prayer, each recitation from
381912 oil on canvas, 96 x 200 cm Kunstmuseum, Basle
39exists without the mediation of rabbinical
40culture, the institutional commentary of the
411912 oil on canvas, 110.3 x 95 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York
42Sensitive, secretive, taciturn, the figure of
431912 gouache on cardboard, 38.1 x 31.7 cm private collection
44The psychological antithesis of their
451913 oil on canvas, 194 x 115 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
46Russian life.
471913 oil on canvas, 132.7 x 139.2 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York
48small industries and the river port, the town still
491913 gouache on paper, 27 x 23 cm private collection, St. Petersburg
50Each house, evidence of an economic unity
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