Marc Chagall

A detailed Summary of Marc Chagall

I chose Marc Chagall because I liked the colors that he used in his paintings. I

liked the way his painting technique looked on the canvas. His short brush strokes made it

appear as if one color was blending into another. There are areas in some of his paintings

where there are numerous colors, all made to look as if there was only one color. I also

like the way that his pictures seem to tell a story. When I first looked at Chagall's work, I

thought he just randomly threw ideas onto a canvas, but as I got to reading about him, I

found he put much more thought into his pictures than I had imagined. His use of color

vary from dark and dreary to bright and bold, and put forth feelings of terror and

excitement, depending on the colors which he chose to use. Another reason that I chose to

use Chagall as my artist would probably be because I didn't find that he painted a lot of

human heads, rather, he used animal heads. Seeing as how I'm not very skilled when it

comes to drawing the human face, I thought it would be a good idea to choose Marc

Marc Chagall was born in 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia. He was born to a family that

was deeply rooted in Jewish religion and tradition. The Je

landscape, the nude and the still life, he moved away from the traditional subject matter of

painting, and he moved onto new realms such as dreams, visions and legends. His colors

dream, memory and fantasy became just as important as visible reality. Some described

Chagall moved to Paris in 1910 at the age of 23 and entered the arena of European

Chagall altered and enhanced the expressive power of color. His colors were

transformed both the visible world and human emotions into visual poetry. Rather than

painting. His work from 1911 and 1912 are considered to be his first great works. He

1923 to 1947. He incorporated what he thought to be significant events from the world

both important and included in his work. An example of how he used the past and what

earning praise for this, Chagall heard criticism. The criticism he received for his work

Angel depicts war, flight and exile. This picture has historical content including a fleeing

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