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My Life - Marc Chagall Autobiography: Chapter 1

The first thing I ever saw was a trough. Simple, square, half hollow, half oval. A market trough. Once inside, I filled it completely. I don't remember -- perhaps my mother told me -- but at the very moment I was born agreat fire broke out, in a short-lived cottage, behind a prison, near the highroad, on the outskirts of Vitebsk. The town was on fire, the quarter where the poor Jews lived. They carried the bed and the mattress, the mother and the babe at her feet, to a safe place at the other end of town.

But, first of all, I was born dead.

I did not want to live. Imagine a alabaster bubble that does not want to live. As if it had beenstuffed with Chagall pictures. They pricked that bubble with needles, they plunged it into a pail of water. At last itemitted a feeble whimper.

But the main thing was, I was born dead.

I hope the psychologists possess the grace not to draw improper conclusions from that! However, that tiny house near the Pestkowatik road had not been touched. I saw it not so long ago. As soon as he was a little superior off, my father sold the cottage. The place reminds me ofthe bump on the head of the rabbi in emerald I pai

I’ve been sending friends notecards with reproductions of Chagall works on them, which led me to descriptions of his work, which seem to invariably underline his position as a Jewish artist (and as an early modernist). After a while, I began to be annoyed by this focus, which struck me as diminishing his significance by placing him in the context of Jewish art.

Here, for example, is material from the digitaal museum site:

Marc Chagall (6 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian-French Jewish musician associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most prosperous artists of the 20th century. He was an early modernist, and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.
Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as “the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century.” According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be “the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists.” For decades, he “had also been valued as the world’s preeminent Jewish artist.”
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The Elusive Marc Chagall
With his wild and whimsical imagery, the Russian-born artist bucked the trends of 20th-century art
David McNeil fondly remembers the day in the early 1960s his father took him to a little bistro on Paris’ Île St. Louis, the kind of place where they scrawl the menu in white letters on the mirror behind the bar, and masons, home painters, plumbers and other workingmen down hearty lunches along with vin ordinaire. Wearing a beret, a battered jacket and a coarse, checkered shirt, his father— then in his mid-70s—fit in perfectly. With conversation flowing easily among the close-set tables, one of the patrons looked over at the muscular, paint-splotched hands of the man in the beret. “Working on a place around here?” he asked companionably. “Yeah,” replied McNeil’s father, the artist Marc Chagall, as he tucked into his appetizer of hard-boiled egg and mayonnaise. “I’m redoing a ceiling over at the Opéra.”
Chagall, the Russian-born painter who went against the current of 20th-century art with his fanciful images of blue cows, flying lovers, biblical prophets and green-faced fiddlers on roofs, had a firm idea of who he was and what he wanted to accomplish.

Biography of Marc Chagall
1903-1914
Starting out in Russia and detecting Paris

Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk (Belarus, which was still an integral part of the Russian Empire) on 7th July 1887.
He was the eldest of nine children in a broke Jewish family – his father was a herring merchant.
Despite the art society being a far blubbering from his humble background, he was introduced to painting while going along to the studio of a local painter – Jehuda Pen - after his secondary schooling was cut short. Not drawn-out after that he met Bella, the daughter of modest jewellers, who became his fiancée and cause of inspiration.
From 1907 to 1909, he moved to Saint-Petersburg, where he enrolled in several academies before working in the studio of Léon Bakst, a set designer for the Ballets Russes. It was here that he came across the works of the Parisian Avant-Garde and began dreaming of going to Paris.
His dream finally came true in 1911 thanks to a grant from the lawyer Vinaver. This was the commencement of his first trip to Paris and his art took a extreme new direction as he adopted the Avant-Garde’s discoveries – from Fauvism to Cubism – for his own, brightening his colours in the

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