Marc Chagall

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Marc Chagall

Belorussian-born French artist

Written by Roy Donald McMullen

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Born:: July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]

Died:: March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France (aged 97)

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Marc Chagall (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France) was a Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. Predating Surrealism, his early works, such as I and the Village (1911), were among the first expressions of psychic reality in modern art. His works in various media include sets for plays and ballets, etchings illustrating the Bible, and stained-glass windows. Chagall was born in a small city in the western Russian Empire not far from ...(100 of 1807 words)

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