Marc
Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussia to a poor Hassidic
family. The eldest of nine children, he studied first
in a heder before moving to a secular Russian school,
where he began to display his artistic talent. With his
mother's support, and despite his father's disapproval,
Chagall pursued his interest in art, going to St. Petersburg
in 1907 to study art with Leon Bakst. Influenced by contemporary
Russian painting, Chagall's distinctive, child-like style,
often centering on images from his childhood, began to
emerge.
From 1910 to 1914, Chagall lived in Paris, and there absorbed
the works of the leading cubist, surrealist, and fauvist
painters. It was during this period that Chagall painted
some of his most famous paintings of the Jewish shtetl
or village, and developed the features that became recognizable
trademarks of his art. Strong and often bright colors
portray the world with a dreamlike, non-realistic simplicity,
and the fusion of fantasy, religion, and nostalgia infuses
his work with a joyous quality. Animals, workmen, lovers,
and musicians populate his figures; the "fiddler on the
roof" recurs frequently, often hovering within another
scene.
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