Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, to a poor Jewish family of ten children. His father, Zakhar Chagall, worked in a fish factory and his mother, Ida, ran a grocery…

Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, to a poor Jewish family of ten children. His father, Zakhar Chagall, worked in a fish factory and his mother, Ida, ran a grocery store. Chagall’s childhood, his family, and his native town became the main themes of Chagall’s art. These first impressions stayed in his heart forever and were transformed into his paintings. Chagall received early schooling from a teacher friend who lived nearby. He also attended the town school, but he only did well in geometry. He became an apprentice (a person who works for another in order to learn a profession) to a photographer but did not like the work. He then decided that he wanted to become an artist. Yuri Pen, a famous realist artist offered lessons free of charge, but soon Chagall understood that academic portrait painting didn’t suit him. In 1907 he moved to St. Petersburg where he became a student of Leon Bakst. There in Bakst’s studio Chagall was establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality. Chagall went to Paris in 1910. French poets and painters became his friends. Robert Delauney’s Cubist technique and his lyrical sense of colour had a strong influence on Chagall’s ideas. I and the Village (1911) is among his early Parisian works. Marc Chagall participated in the art exhibitions at Parisian Salons in 1912, but it was his first one- man show in Gallery Der Sturm in Berlin, Germany, which established him internationally as a leading artist. Chagall lived in Belarus during World War I. Despite the hardships of wartime life, this was a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married his fiancŒee Bella, and she gave birth to their daughter, Ida, the following year. In 1917 Chagall was made the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk and founded the Academy of Arts in 1919. Chagall took his family to Paris in 1923. In 1931 he made a journey to Palestine and Syria. It gave Chagall firsthand knowledge of the land, which later helped him to make illustrations for the Bible. He is considered to be the greatest interpreter of the Bible after Rembrandt. But at the same time as Chagall’s popularity was spreading, the threat of Nazism was spreading in Europe. During the cultural “cleansing” in Germany, Chagall’s works were removed from museums throughout the country and several pieces were burned. Marc Chagall had to move to the United States, where he lived until 1947. There he designed the sets and costumes for the ballets. Sadly, Bella, his beloved wife and model died in 1944. Chagall continued to create great artworks throughout the later years of his life. He returned to France in 1948, where he experimented with new art forms. His famous “Paris” series, fantastic scenes set against the background of views of the city, was created in the 50s. In 1973 a museum of Marc Chagall works was opened in Nice, France. In 1977, the Louvre, a world-famous art museum in Paris, exhibited sixty-two of his paintings, an extremely rare event for a living artist. Chagall died at the age of ninety-seven in 1985. выбери самые важные десять предложений о жизни Марка Шагала из предоставленной информации