Chagall

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall is a painter and engraver born in Belarus, in 1887.

He is raised by his Jewish mother, who transmits the passion of men and makes him read the Bible. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg and then worked in a workshop.

In 1910, he left for Paris. There, he discovered the Fauvism whose movement is extinguished, and the cubism that has just been born. Fauvism he is inspired by the cheerful colors, the cubism of deconstruction of the object.

Although living in Paris, Marc Chagall still forgets his native Russia, and this one never ceases to inspire his paintings. Likewise, the Jewish culture in which he was immersed as a child remains present in his work.

The latter exhibits the biblical work at the Louvre and then at the National Museum of the Bible Message in Nice, renamed Marc Chagall National Museum. 

Marc Chagall cannot be associated with a particular movement, since the artist prefers to mix styles. However, in his work we find.