Chagall and artworks E-Book

Sylvie Forestier

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 57

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Sylvie Forestier

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ISBN: 978-1-78160-935-4

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

A Soldier and a Girl

Apollinaire

Apparition of the Artist’s Family

Around Her

Artist at Easel

B

Barbershop

Bella with a White Collar

Birth of a Child

Birthday

By the Window at Night

C

Champ de Mars

Chemist’s Shop in Vitebsk

Concert in Blue

Confidence at Circus

Costume Design for Nikolai Gogol’s “The Inspector General”

D

Dedicated to My Fiancée

Double Portrait with a Wineglass

F

Father

G

Golgotha

H

Hommage à Apollinaire

House in the Village of Liozno

I

I and the Village

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Illustration to Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”

Interior with Flowers

J

Jew Holding the Torah

Jew in Green

Jew in Prayer

Jew in Red

Jewish Wedding

K

Kermis

King David

L

Lilies of the Valley

Lovers

Lovers in Blue

Lovers in Green

Lovers in Grey

Lovers in Pink

M

Madonna of the Village

Man with a Cat and Woman with a Child

Maternity (Pregnant Woman)

My Fiancée in Black Gloves

O

Old Man and Old Woman

On the Road

Over the Town

Over Vitebsk

P

Paris Through the Window

Peace to Cottages, War on Palaces

Portrait of the Artist’s Sister Mariassinka

Promenade

R

Russian Village Under the Moon

S

Sabbath

Le Saoul (The Drinker)

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait at the Easel

Self-Portrait with Muse (The Apparition)

Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers

Self-Portrait with White Collar

Soldiers

Soldiers with Bread

Soukkot (Rabbi with a Lemon)

Still-Life with Lamp

Street in the Village

Street in Vitebsk

Study for “The Rain”

T

The Acrobat

The Artist’s Sister (Mania)

The Baby’s Bath

The Blue House

The Butcher

The Cattle Dealer

The Cemetery Gates

The Circus

The Circus Rider

The Clock

The Cock

The Cock in Love

The Dacha

The Fiddler

The Green Violonist

The Grey House

The House in the Suburbs

The Juggler

The Mirror

The Newspaper Vendor

The Old Jew

The Poet (Half Past Three)

The Poet Reclining

The Promenade

The Red Houses

The Revolution

The Sky of Paris

The Soldier Drinks

The Street Sweeper (Janitor with Birds)

The Street Sweeper

The Triumph of Music

The Violonist

The Vitebsk Preacher

The Wall of Lamentations

The Wedding

The Wedding

The Yellow Room

Time is a River without Banks

To My Wife

To Russia, Asses and Others

V

View from the Window, Vitebsk

Village Scene in Vitebsk

W

Wall Clock with a Blue Wing

Wedding at the Eiffel Tower

Window at the Dacha, Zaolshye near Vitebsk

Window Overlooking the Garden

Wounded Soldier

Self-Portrait

1909. Oil on canvas, 57 x 48 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldort

Biography

7 July 1887

Marc Zakharovich Chagall, the son of a fish vendor, was born in Vitebsk.

1906

Studied at the art school of Yuri Pen in Vitebsk, leaving for St. Petersburg in the winter.

1907-1910

Studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, St. Petersburg (then directed by Nicholas Roerich) and the private school of S. Saidenberg; entered the private art school of Yelizaveta Zvantseva, where he studied under Léon Bakst and Matislav Dobuzhinsky. Showed his works at the school exhibition held in the office of the magazine Apollon.

1910-1914

Lived in Paris, on the Impasse du Maine. In 1911, moved to La Ruche. Met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Amedeo Modigliani, Alexander Arkhipenko, Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, and other famous artists and writers. Exhibited at the Salon des Independants and the Salon d’Automne in Paris, with the Donkey’s Tail group in Moscow, at Der Sturm Gallery in Berlin (first one-man show) and also in St. Petersburg and Amsterdam. On the eve of the war, returned to Vitebsk.

July 1915

Married Bella Rosenfeld.

1915-1917

Worked in Petrograd, served on the military-industrial committee. Exhibited in Moscow and Petrograd.

1916

Birth of his daughter Ida.

1918-1919

Appointed Commissar for the Arts in the Regional Department of People’s Education in Vitebsk. Set up and ran (from early 1919) an art school in Vitebsk, where the teachers included Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Ivan Puni and Kasimir Malevich. Headed the Free Painting Workshop (Svomas) and the museum. Organized the celebrations in 1918 for the first anniversary of the October Revolution. Took part in the First State Free Exhibition held in the Winter Palace, Petrograd.

1920-1921

Conflict with Malevich and Lissitzky forced Chagall to leave Vitebsk. He lived in and near Moscow, producing works for the Jewish Chamber Theatre and teaching in the Malakhovka and Third International colonies for homeless children. Began work on the book My Life.

1922

Joint exhibition in Moscow with Nathan Altman and David Sterenberg.

1922-1923

Travelled to Kaunas with an exhibition of his works. Visited Berlin and Paris. Settled in Paris in September 1923. Produced etchings for My Life and began work on illustrations to Gogol’s Dead Souls.

1926

One-man shows in Paris and New York.

1930-1931

Worked on illustrations for the Bible. Travelled to Switzerland, Palestine, Syria and Egypt. Exhibitions in Paris, Brussels and New York.

1933

At Goebbels’ command, Chagall’s works were burnt in public in Mannheim. Exhibition in Basle.

1935

Visited Poland.

1937

Granted French citizenship. Travelled to Italy.

1939

Carnegie Prize (USA).

1940

Moved to the Loire and then to Provence.

1941

Arrested in Marseille and then freed. Moved to the USA.

1942

Worked for theatres in the USA and Mexico.

1944

Death of Bella Chagall in New York.

1945

Set designs and costumes for Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird.

1946

Exhibitions in New York and Chicago.

1947

Exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.

1948

Returned to France. Publication of Dead Souls with illustrations by Chagall. Exhibitions in Amsterdam and London. Travelled widely in this and the following years.

1950

Moved to Vence, near Nice. Worked on lithographs and ceramics.

1951

First stone sculptures. Large exhibitions in Bern and Jerusalem.

1952

Married Valentina Brodsky. Visit to Greece.

1953-1955

Major exhibitions in Turin, Vienna and Hanover.

1956