1887–1985 · Expressionism. Wikipedia
Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.
La Mariée (French for The Bride) is a gouache and pastel painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall, from 1950. It is held in a private collection in Japan. La Mariée was prominently featured in the 1999 film Notting Hill. Chagall paintings often feature young women or couples, but in La Mariée, the focus is on a young bride. Described by a Chagall fan as "an ode to young love," the painting presents the bride as if the viewer were the one marrying her.
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers is a 1913 oil painting by Belarusian-French painter Marc Chagall, painted in 1913 in France. This oil on canvas is a self-portrait in which the artist represents himself painting a reduced version of Of Russia, of Donkeys and Others, with seven fingers on one hand. It is kept as part of the Chagall collection at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The White Crucifixion is a painting by Marc Chagall depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus. It was painted in 1938 and is now in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting emphasizes the suffering of Jesus and the Jewish people. At the sides violent acts against Jews occur such as the burning of a synagogue and invaders. And in the center, Jesus is shown crucified wearing a prayer shawl as a symbol that he is Jewish. The work is startling as the crucifixion, often seen by the Jewish people as a symbol of oppression, is instead being used to represent their suffering.
I and the Village is a 1911 oil-on-canvas painting by the Russian-French artist Marc Chagall created in 1911. 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 upside-down female violinist in front of a black-clothed man holding a scythe. The green-faced man wears a necklace with St. Andrew's cross. As the title suggests, I and the Village is influenced by memories of the artist's place of birth and his relationship to it. I and the Village is the enduring love between Chagall and his wife, Bella. Some interpretations identify the female figure in the painting as Bella.
Green Violinist is a 1923–24 painting by artist Marc Chagall that is now in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The work depicts a fiddler as the central figure who appears to be floating or dancing above the much smaller rooftops of the misty gray village below. This work is often considered to be the inspiration for the title of the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof. Green Violinist was completed following Chagall's return to Paris after a long visit to his homeland of Russia. This particular version is a later re-working of an earlier version painted during Chagall's second Russian period. This version was most likely completed while the 1920 original was being shown in Paris. This work presents subject matter that is nearly identical to its 1920 predecessor, Music, which was one of seven paintings created on a commission from the Moscow State Jewish Theatre. The direct connection between Green Violinist and its earlier counterpart was made explicitly during the artist's lifetime at his retrospective at Museum of Modern Art.
Four Seasons is a 1974 mosaic by Marc Chagall that is located in Chase Tower Plaza in the Loop district of Chicago, Illinois. The mosaic was a gift to the City of Chicago by Frederick H. Prince (via the Prince Charitable Trusts); it is wrapped around four sides of a 70 feet (21 m) long, 14 feet (4.3 m) high, 10 feet (3.0 m) wide rectangular box, and was dedicated on September 27, 1974. It was renovated in 1994 and a protective glass canopy was installed. The mosaic was the subject of a 1974 documentary film, The Gift: Four Seasons Mosaic of Marc Chagall, directed by Chuck Olin.
Bella with White Collar (French: Bella au col blanc) is a painting done by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall in 1917. It is a portrait of Bella Rosenfeld Chagall, Chagall's wife at the time. The two tiny figures at the bottom are thought to represent the artist and the couple's daughter, Ida. The painting is currently kept at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris.
The Yellow Crucifixion is a painting by Marc Chagall. It was painted in 1943 and is on display at Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, France. The piece reworked many themes that first occurred in Chagall's more famous artwork White Crucifixion whereby the suffering of Jewish victims of the Holocaust was communicated through the image of Jesus Christ as a Jew.
Le Grand Cirque is an oil on canvas painting by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall, from 1968. It is held in a private collection. On this painting, Chagall focuses on the ring or center stage as a mythical winged figures looks down upon the spectacle from on high. The subject of circus was dear to the artist. Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks. He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings. Among other Post-Impressionist and Modern painters who featured the circus in their works are Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Rouault, Van Dongen and Léger. Le Grand Cirque (1968) is considered Chagall's most grand exploration of the circus as a subject for his paintings.
Le Clown au Cirque (English: The Clown at the Circus) is a tempera and pen-and-ink painting on board created by Belarusian-French artist Marc Chagall, in 1980. It is held in a private collection. The painting depicts floating clowns amid the circus ring in the middle of the performance. The subject of circus was dear to the artist. Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks. He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human beings who are like characters in certain religious paintings.
Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio is a gouache painting by the Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, from 1945. The 51 by 35.5 cm (20-inch by 14-inch) work was created by Chagall in response to the devastation brought by the Holocaust. It references Jesus Christ, like some others of his paintings of this time. Its imagery consists of a crucified Jesus, wearing tefillin 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.
Марк Шагал «День рождения», 1915