Chagall would later include fish motifs " out of respect for his father ", writes Chagall biographer, Jacob Baal-Teshuva.

Describing himself variously as a Satanic joke, a seven-headed dragon, Franz Kafka's insect, an aura of crazed whiteness and a total eclipse, Mario Azzopardi sees himself " revolving in a Chagall dream, half-moon, half-fish.

It boasts masterpieces that have had a considerable influence on all of western culture, Jewish culture included-works such as those of Heinrich Heine, Gustav Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, Marc Chagall, Jacob Epstein, Ben Shahn, Amedeo Modigliani, Franz Kafka, Max Reinhardt ( Goldman ), Ernst Lubitsch, and Woody Allen.

73 ( July – December 1922 ) Sherwood Anderson, Constantin Brâncuşi, Marc Chagall, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Elie Faure, Duncan Grant, Herman Hesse, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, D. H. Lawrence, Mina Loy, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Thomas Mann, Raymond Mortimer, Paul Rosenfeld, Arthur Schnitzler, Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, William Butler Yeats

These include the Chicago Picasso, Miró's Chicago, Flamingo and Flying Dragon by Alexander Calder, Monument with Standing Beast by Jean Dubuffet, Batcolumn by Claes Oldenburg, Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor, Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa, and the Four Seasons mosaic by Marc Chagall.

* Russian — Chagall, Marc ( worked mainly in France ): Pierrot with Umbrella ( 1926 ); Somov, Konstantin: Lady and Pierrot ( 1910 ), Curtain Design for Moscow Free Theater ( 1913 ), Italian Comedy ( 1914 ; two versions ); Suhaev, Vasilij, and Alexandre Yakovlev: Harlequin and Pierrot ( Self-Portraits of and by Suhaev and A. Yakovlev ) ( 1914 ); Tchelitchew, Pavel ( worked mainly in France and U. S. A .): Pierrot ( 1930 ).

The poet Max Jacob said he came to Montparnasse to " sin disgracefully ", but Marc Chagall summed it up differently when he explained why he had gone to Montparnasse: " I aspired to see with my own eyes what I had heard of from so far away: this revolution of the eye, this rotation of colours, which spontaneously and astutely merge with one another in a flow of conceived lines.

Marc Zaharovich Chagall ( ; ; ; ;) ( 28 March 1985 ), was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.

But Chagall arrived from Russia with " a ripe color gift, a fresh, unashamed response to sentiment, a feeling for simple poetry and a sense of humor ", he adds.

Chagall, however, did not want his work to be associated with any school or movement and considered his own personal language of symbols to be meaningful to himself.

Because he missed his fiancée, Bella, who was still in Vitebsk —" He thought about her day and night ", writes Baal-Teshuva — and was afraid of losing her, Chagall decided to accept an invitation from a noted art dealer in Berlin to exhibit his work, his intention being to continue on to Belarus, marry Bella, and then return with her to Paris.

Chagall tried to create an atmosphere of a collective of independently minded artists, each with their own unique style.

Chagall saw the Old Testament as a " human story, ... not with the creation of the cosmos but with the creation of man, and his figures of angels are rhymed or combined with human ones ", writes Wullschlager.

Chagall had been so involved with his art, that it was not until October 1940, after the Vichy government, at the behest of the Nazi occupying forces, began approving anti-Semitic laws, that he began to understand what was happening.

After prodding by their daughter Ida, who " perceived the need to act fast ", and with help from Alfred Barr of the New York Museum of Modern Art, Chagall was saved by having his name added to the list of prominent artists whose lives were at risk and who the United States should try to extricate.

According to Baal-Teshuva, when the final bar of music ended, " there was a tumultuous applause and 19 curtain calls, with Chagall himself being called back onto the stage again and again.

Wullschlager writes of the effect on Chagall: " As news poured in through 1945 of the ongoing Holocaust at Nazi concentration camps, Bella took her place in Chagall's mind with the millions of Jewish victims.

They had a child together, David McNeil, born 22 June 1946 ,; Haggard recalled her " seven years of plenty " with Chagall in her book, My Life with Chagall ( Robert Hale, 1986 ).

A few months after the French succeeded in liberating Paris from Nazi occupation, with the help of the Allied armies, Chagall published a letter in a Paris weekly, " To the Paris Artists ":

The marriage took place in July, 1952 — though six years later, when there was conflict between Ida and Vava, " Marc and Vava divorced and immediately remarried under an agreement more favourable to Vava " ( Jean-Paul Crespelle: Chagall, l ' Amour le Reve et la Vie, quoted in Haggard: My Life with Chagall ).

Cogniat writes, " Chagall is unrivalled in this ability to give a vivid impression of explosive movement with the simplest use of colors ..." Throughout his life his colors created a " vibrant atmosphere " which was based on " his own personal vision.

In a later paper, Watanabe showed that if pigeons and human college students undergo the same training, their performance in distinguishing between Van Gogh and Chagall paintings is comparable.

His visual style seems equidistant between Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee on the one hand and Marc Chagall on the other.

Chicago is well known for its wealth of public art, including works by such artistic heavyweights as Chagall, Picasso, Miro and Abakanowicz that are all to be found outdoors.

During the 20th century, a group of celebrated artists, including Calder, Chagall, Dufy, Léger, Matisse, Miró, and Picasso, rediscovered the largely undeveloped art form of lithography thanks to the Mourlot Studios, also known as Atelier Mourlot, a Parisian printshop founded in 1852 by the Mourlot family.

Nice also has numerous museums of all kinds: Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse ( arenas of Cimiez containing Roman ruins ), Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret, Musée international d ' Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky, Musée Terra-Amata, Museum of Asian Art, Musée d ' art moderne et d ' art contemporain which devotes much space to the well-known École of Nice ”), Museum of Natural History, Musée Masséna, Naval Museum and Galerie des Ponchettes.

In the latter half of the 20th century, Pierrot continued to appear in the art of the Modernists — or at least of the long-lived among them: Chagall, Ernst, Goleminov, Hopper, Miró, Picasso — as well as in the work of their younger followers, such as Gerard Dillon, Indrek Hirv, and Roger Redgate.

Gorman was a collector of art, such as works by European masters Picasso and Chagall, and local artists, such as Bill Rane, whose work Gorman identified as his favorite of the artist colony.

According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be " the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists ".

Portrait of Chagall by Yehuda Pen | Yehuda ( Yuri ) Pen, his first art teacher in Vitebsk

Chagall would later say that there was no art of any kind in his family's home and the concept was totally alien to him.

The other alternative — the one that Chagall chose — was " to cherish and publicly express one's Jewish roots " by integrating them into his art.

Bakst, also Jewish, was a designer of decorative art and was famous as a draftsman designer of stage sets and costumes for the ' Ballets Russes ,' and helped Chagall by acting as a role model for Jewish success.

Art historian Raymond Cogniat writes that after living and studying art on his own for four years, " Chagall entered into the mainstream of contemporary art.

Art historian and curator James Sweeney notes that when Chagall first arrived in Paris, Cubism was the dominant art form, and French art was still dominated by the " materialistic outlook of the 19th century ".

Art historian Jean Leymarie observes that Chagall began thinking of art as " emerging from the internal being outward, from the seen object to the psychic outpouring ", which was the reverse of the Cubist way of creating.

It was not until 1927 that Chagall made his name in the French art world, when art critic and historian Maurice Raynal awarded him a place in his book Modern French Painters.

After Chagall returned to New York in 1943, however, current events began to interest him more, and this was represented by his art, where he painted subjects including the Crucifixion and scenes of war.

However many modern artists such as Eric Gill, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink and Graham Sutherland have produced well-known works of art for churches.

However many modern artists such as Eric Gill, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink and Graham Sutherland have produced well-known works of art for churches.

* Russian — Chagall, Marc ( worked mainly in France ): Circus Scene ( late 1960s / early 1970s ), Pierrot lunaire ( 1969 ).

Chagall wrote of these early years:

At one time or another in those early years of the 20th century, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky, Alexandre Altmann, Ossip Zadkine, Moise Kisling, Marc Chagall, Max Pechstein, Nina Hamnett, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, Pinchus Kremegne, Max Jacob, Blaise Cendrars, Chaim Soutine, Robert Delaunay, Amedeo Modigliani, Constantin Brâncuşi, Amshey Nurenberg, Diego Rivera, Marevna, Luigi Guardigli and others, called the place home or frequented it.

In early 1920, Marc Chagall selected Malevich to succeed him as director.