He had two basic reputations, writes Lewis: as a pioneer of modernism and as a major Jewish artist. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra.īefore World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. For decades, he 'had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist'. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be 'the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists'. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic tapestries and fine art prints.Īrt critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as 'the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century' (though Chagall saw his work as 'not the dream of one people but of all humanity'). Marc Chagall (born Moïche Zakharovitch Chagalov (1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin.

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Marc chagall paris opera ceiling