Who is Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated with 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.Born in modern-day Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire, he was of Belarusian Jewish origin. Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern Europe and Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist...
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- Great art picks up where nature ends.
- When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
- In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
- Great art picks up where nature ends.
- Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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Inadebree: ‘i had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered her.’ — marc chagall | ph. yousef karsh, 1965Cmp6291: marc chagall ( 1887 - 1985 ) " the acrobat " 1930 museo chagall niza
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Maccocktail: "art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers—and never succeeding." ― marc chagall (died this day, march 29, 1985)
Cdgingrich: marc chagall, 'exodus' exodus 20 “i am the lord your god, who brought you out of egypt, out of the land of slavery. you shall have no other gods before me."
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