Despite being contemporary with well-known artists such as Pablo Picasso and the great Matisse, he will never really assimilate their artistic currents. With a particular vision of the world, we discover the pictorial production of Marc Chagall.
Who was Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 7 July 1887 – Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 28 March 1985), was a Russian painter, of Jewish origin.
He grows up in a city of present-day Belarus, then of the Russian Empire, with his 8 siblings and parents.
His difficult childhood marked by an attack during a pogrom during a moment in the synagogue is actually remembered by the artist as a happy moment.
Her life experience turns out to be fundamental for the realization of his future works.
The beginning of the artistic career
As a child, he showed an interest in art but this career was forbidden by his religion. He manages, despite the skepticism of his family, to undertake a path first close to the world of photography and then of painting. He moves to St. Petersburg and here he attends theRussian Academy of Fine Arts.
In the early 1900s she began to be an appreciated artist and so in 1910 she decided to move to Paris assimilating the artistic novelties through the air of the city. Here, in fact, he met numerous artists of the time and studied the various emerging art currents. After a period in the French capital he returned to his country to actively participate in the Russian revolution.
World success and exile
Embittered by the Russian situation, he decides to move to Berlin and then back to Paris where he gets in touch with old friends. In addition to carrying out his artistic production, he also dedicates himself to writing of some articles and poems with the collaboration of his wife.
With the advent of World War II it is forced to take refuge in the United States along with numerous Jews who thus form a community in the new country. He fails to integrate fully, however, as he refuses to assimilate the aspects of this new cult the aura and with the death of his beloved wife he begins a period of depression. Once he has recovered his inspiration, he continues with his artistic production which reaches international success with the end of the war.