Download or read book Marc Chagall Vitebsk Par s New York written by Mikhail Guerman and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chagall loved blue. “The blue of the sky which ceaselessly combats the clouds which pass, which pass…” (Baudelaire). Marc Chagall’s journey began in his native Russia and concluded with his Parisian triumph, the extraordinary ceiling of the Paris Opera House, commissioned by André Malraux. On the way, he embraced the spirit of the twentieth century without ever disowning his Jewish-Russian origins. This work follows the path of the artist through his early works, his discovery of the United States and his passion for France. Marc Chagall, unaffiliated with any movement but influenced by his encounters with Bakst, Matisse and Picasso, remains, undeniably, the painter of poetry.

Download or read book Chagall written by Victoria Charles and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1985) Chagall est né dans une famille juive de stricte obédience pour laquelle l’interdit de représentation de la figure humaine avait valeur de dogme. Après un échec à l’examen d’entrée à l’école des Arts et Métiers du baron Stieglitz, Chagall intègre plus tard celle fondée par la Société impériale d’encouragement des Beaux-Arts dirigée par Nicolas Roerich. En 1910, il s’installe à Paris qui sera son «second Vitebsk ». Chagall retrouve à la Ruche de nombreux compatriotes attirés, eux aussi, par le prestige de Paris. Lipchitz, Zadkine, Archipenko, Soutine qui maintiendront, autour du jeune peintre, le parfum de sa terre natale. Les auteurs des premières études sur Chagall relevaient déjà que Paris avait influencé sa manière picturale, avait apporté une nervosité frêle et une netteté aux lignes qui répondent avec assurance et justesse à la couleur et pour beaucoup, la commandent. L’observateur le plus attentif, le plus passionné, se révèle parfois incapable de distinguer le Chagall «de Paris » du Chagall «de Vitebsk ». L’artiste n’est pas contradictoire ni «dédoublé », mais il demeurait constamment ouverts, regardant en lui et autour de lui, considérant le monde environnant, les idées de son époque, les souvenirs du passé. Chagall est doué d’une sorte «d’immunité stylistique », il s’enrichit sans rien détruire de sa propre structure. Il s’enthousiasme, apprend en toute ingénuité, se défait de la maladresse juvénile, mais sans perdre son «authenticité ». Parfois, c’est comme s’il regardait le monde à travers le prisme magique de l’école de Paris. Alors il engage un jeu tout en finesse et en sérieux avec les découvertes du tournant du siècle, alors l’adolescent se considère, ironique et songeur, dans un miroir où s’unissent tout naturellement les acquis picturaux de Cézanne, la spiritualisation fragile de Modigliani, les rythmes complexes des plans qui rappellent les expériences des premiers cubistes (Autoportrait devant le chevalet, 1914). Cependant, au-delà des analyses qui, aujourd’hui, éclairent les sources judéo-russes du peintre, les filiations formelles héritées ou empruntées, mais toujours sublimées, une part de mystère demeure dans l’art de Chagall. Ce mystère tient peut-être à la nature même de cet art qui puise dans le souvenir.

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Jonathan Wilson and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Jewish Encounter series Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions about his life. Drawn to sacred subject matter, Chagall remains defiantly secular in outlook; determined to “narrate” the miraculous and tragic events of the Jewish past, he frequently chooses Jesus as a symbol of martyrdom and sacrifice. Wilson brilliantly demonstrates how Marc Chagall’s life constitutes a grand canvas on which much of twentieth-century Jewish history is vividly portrayed. Chagall left Belorussia for Paris in 1910, at the dawn of modernism, looking back dreamily on the world he abandoned. After his marriage to Bella Rosenfeld in 1915, he moved to Petrograd, but eventually returned to Paris after a stint as a Soviet commissar for art. Fleeing Paris steps ahead of the Nazis, Chagall arrived in New York in 1941. Drawn to Israel, but not enough to live there, Chagall grappled endlessly with both a nostalgic attachment to a vanished past and the magnetic pull of an uninhibited secular present. Wilson’s portrait of Chagall is altogether more historical, more political, and edgier than conventional wisdom would have us believe–showing us how Chagall is the emblematic Jewish artist of the twentieth century. Visit nextbook.org/chagall for a virtual museum of Chagall images.

Download or read book Marc Chagall and His Times written by Benjamin Harshav and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned Israeli-American scholar Harshav presents the first comprehensive investigation of Marc Chagall's life and consciousness after the classic 1961 biography by Chagall's son-in-law Franz Meyer.

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Marc Chagall and published by Third Millennium Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of the opening of a groundbreaking exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York, this volume presents a splendid collection of sixty early paintings, drawings, and murals by Marc Chagall, dating from the artist's years in Russia up to 1910 and again from 1914 to 1922. The latter period, which followed Chagall's departure from Paris, and return to his native Vitebsk, was of particular importance in the development of his major themes and ideas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Jacob Baal-Teshuva and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Chagall was a painter, poet and dreamer as well as being an outsider and artistic eccentric. His work fuses the opposing worlds of dreams and reality. This volume presents an overview of his body of work.

Download or read book For a Better World written by Edward B. Marks and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 150 color posters represent some of the UN's projects and aims in the later half of the 20th century. They depict the call for disarmament, the demand for human rights, the plight of refugees, and other humanitarian aims. The collection includes posters adapted from works by well-known artists

Download or read book Chagall written by Sylvie Forrestier and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Chagall nació en el seno de una familia judía sumamente estricta, para la cual la prohibición de la representación de la figura humana tenía la fuerza de un dogma. El no haber pasado el examen de admisión de la escuela Stieglitz no evitó que Chagall se uniera posteriormente a esa famosa escuela fundada por la sociedad imperial para el fomento de las artes, dirigida por Nicholas Roerich. En 1910, Chagall se mudó a París. La ciudad fue su “segunda Vitebsk”. Al principio, aislado en su pequeña habitación de Impasse du Maine en La Ruche, Chagall encontró numerosos compatriotas a los que también había atraído el prestigio de París: Lipchitz, Zadkine, Archipenko y Sutin, todos ellos destinados a mantener el “aroma” de su tierra natal. Desde su llegada, Chagall quería “descubrirlo todo”. Ante sus sorprendidos ojos, la pintura se le reveló. Aun el observador más atento y parcial tiene dificultad, en ocasiones, para distinguir al Chagal parisino del de Vitebsk. El artista no estaba lleno de contradicciones, ni tenía una personalidad dividida, pero siempre era distinto; miraba a su alrededor y en su interior, así como al mundo que le rodeaba y usaba sus ideas del momento y sus recuerdos. Tenía un estilo de pensamiento sumamente poético que le permitía seguir un camino tan complejo. Chagall estaba dotado de una cierta inmunidad estilística: se enriquecía a sí mismo sin destruir nada de su propia estructura interna. Admiró la obra de otros y la estudió con inventiva, librándose de su juvenil torpeza, pero sin perder un solo instante su autenticidad. Por momentos, Chagall parecía mirar al mundo a través del cristal mágico, sobrecargado de experimentación artística, de la Ecole de París. En tales casos, se embarcaba en un sutil y serio juego con los diversos descubrimientos del fin de siglo y volvía su mirada profética, como la de un joven bíblico, para mirarse a sí mismo con ironía y de manera pensativa en el espejo. Naturalmente, reflejó por completo y de manera extrema los descubrimientos pictóricos de Cézanne, la delicada inspiración de Modigliani y los ritmos superficiales complejos que recordaban la experimentación de los primeros cubistas (Véase Retrato en el caballete, 1914). A pesar de los análisis recientes que mencionan las fuentes judeo-rusas del pintor, heredadas o prestadas pero siempre sublimes, así como de sus relaciones formales, siempre hay algo de misterio en el arte de Chagall. Un misterio que tal vez descansa en la naturaleza misma de su arte, en el que utiliza sus experiencias y recuerdos. Pintar es la vida, y tal vez, la vida es pintar.

Download or read book Marc Chagall on Art and Culture written by Marc Chagall and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Chagall (1887-1985) traversed a long route from a boy in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, to a commissar of art in revolutionary Russia, to the position of a world-famous French artist. This book presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Chagall's public statements on art and culture. The documents and interviews shed light on his rich, versatile, and enigmatic art from within his own mental world. The book raises the problems of a multi-cultural artist with several intersecting identities and the tensions between modernist form and cultural representation in twentieth-century art. It reveals the travails and achievements of his life as a Jew in the twentieth century and his perennial concerns with Jewish identity and destiny, Yiddish literature, and the state of Israel. This collection includes annotations and introductions of the Chagall texts by the renowned scholar Benjamin Harshav that elucidate the texts and convey the changing cultural contexts of Chagall's life. Also featured is the translation by Benjamin and Barbara Harshav of the first book about Chagall's work, the 1918 Russian The Art of Marc Chagall.

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Sylvie Forrestier and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Chagall nació en el seno de una familia judía sumamente estricta, para la cual la prohibición de la representación de la figura humana tenía la fuerza de un dogma. El no haber pasado el examen de admisión de la escuela Stieglitz no evitó que Chagall se uniera posteriormente a esa famosa escuela fundada por la sociedad imperial para el fomento de las artes, dirigida por Nicholas Roerich. En 1910, Chagall se mudó a París. La ciudad fue su “segunda Vitebsk”. Al principio, aislado en su pequeña habitación de Impasse du Maine en La Ruche, Chagall encontró numerosos compatriotas a los que también había atraído el prestigio de París: Lipchitz, Zadkine, Archipenko y Sutin, todos ellos destinados a mantener el “aroma” de su tierra natal. Desde su llegada, Chagall quería “descubrirlo todo”. Ante sus sorprendidos ojos, la pintura se le reveló. Aun el observador más atento y parcial tiene dificultad, en ocasiones, para distinguir al Chagal parisino del de Vitebsk. El artista no estaba lleno de contradicciones, ni tenía una personalidad dividida, pero siempre era distinto; miraba a su alrededor y en su interior, así como al mundo que le rodeaba y usaba sus ideas del momento y sus recuerdos. Tenía un estilo de pensamiento sumamente poético que le permitía seguir un camino tan complejo. Chagall estaba dotado de una cierta inmunidad estilística: se enriquecía a sí mismo sin destruir nada de su propia estructura interna. Admiró la obra de otros y la estudió con inventiva, librándose de su juvenil torpeza, pero sin perder un solo instante su autenticidad. Por momentos, Chagall parecía mirar al mundo a través del cristal mágico, sobrecargado de experimentación artística, de la Ecole de París. En tales casos, se embarcaba en un sutil y serio juego con los diversos descubrimientos del fin de siglo y volvía su mirada profética, como la de un joven bíblico, para mirarse a sí mismo con ironía y de manera pensativa en el espejo. Naturalmente, reflejó por completo y de manera extrema los descubrimientos pictóricos de Cézanne, la delicada inspiración de Modigliani y los ritmos superficiales complejos que recordaban la experimentación de los primeros cubistas (Véase Retrato en el caballete, 1914). A pesar de los análisis recientes que mencionan las fuentes judeo-rusas del pintor, heredadas o prestadas pero siempre sublimes, así como de sus relaciones formales, siempre hay algo de misterio en el arte de Chagall. Un misterio que tal vez descansa en la naturaleza misma de su arte, en el que utiliza sus experiencias y recuerdos. Pintar es la vida, y tal vez, la vida es pintar.

Download or read book Chagall written by Raymond Cogniat and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1965-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette collection se propose d'offrir au lecteur, présentées par les spécialistes les plus qualifiés, et illustrées de cinquante planches en quatre couleurs et de vingt dessins en un ou deux tons, des monographies consacrées aux grands maîtres de la peinture contemporaine. Les textes, solidement étayés par une documentation très abondante, font le point des connaissances actuelles sur l'artiste et son œuvre, et sont accompagnés d'une chronologie et d'une bibliographie substantielles. Les illustrations, d'une exécution particulièrement soignée, font l'objet d'un choix sévère dans l'ensemble de l'œuvre et offrent par conséquent un panorama complet des différentes préoccupations et techniques de l'artiste.

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Marc Chagall and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shocking Paris written by Stanley Meisler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of the emigree art world of Paris between the Wars examines the short, dramatic life of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Russian Jewish painter Chaim Soutine, who, in constant fear of the French police and the German Gestapo, was the epitome of the tortured artist.

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Mikhail Guerman and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chagall’s life and works have an international dimension that endows it with universal appeal. Throughout his life, this Jewish artist imbued his painting with passion and poetry, and left his mark across the world, from the Metropolitan Opera House of New York to the Opera Garnier of Paris.

Download or read book Marc Chagall written by Olivier Meessen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Chagall written by Marc Chagall and published by Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc Chagall is justly famed as one of modernism's greatest colorists, and its most articulate painter of dispossession, exile and human joy. Chagall also uniquely reconciled the motifs and concerns of Jewish culture with his strange amalgam of Symbolism, Fauvism and Cubism. His lifespan encompassed two world wars, the October Revolution of 1917 and continual uprooting, with lengthy spells in Paris, Moscow and New York; although he painted the ravages of these wars and the sufferings of the Jewish people, and although his art is steeped in the melancholia of exile, it never ceased to affirm life and to praise it. This beautifully produced volume, with its abundance of color plates and first-rate scholarship, celebrates Chagall in all his diversity, reproducing paintings, book illustrations to the Bible and works by Gogol and La Fontaine, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and prints. These works are contextualized in essays by Chagall scholars Meret Meyer, Jean-Louis Prat, Ekaterina Selezneva, Angela Lampe and Ángeles Caso, and in an extensive chronology of the artist's life, amply illustrated with photographs from his personal album. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was born in Liozna, near Vitebsk, Belarus, a major center of Hassidic culture in the Russian empire. In 1906 he moved to St Petersburg, Russia, enrolling in art school before moving to Paris in 1910, where Apollinaire, Delaunay and Léger were among his earliest advocates. Chagall's reputation began to grow during his Moscow years (1914-1922), but it was not until some five years after his return to Paris that his first major exhibitions took place. Two years into the Second World War, Chagall went into exile again, living in New York until 1948. The major triumph of his last decades was perhaps his ceiling for the Paris Opera (1963), which astounded both critics and the wider public.