Marc Chagall

Abstract

Marc Chagall was inspired by the customs of life in Belarus and translate many Biblical themes reflecting his Jewish heritage. In the 1960s and 1970s became involved in large projects in public spaces or in important civil and religious buildings. Chagall’s work is connected with different currents of modern art, including Cubism and Fauvism. He was very connected with the Paris School and its exponents, as Amedeo Modigliani. His works are abundant references to his childhood, avoiding the problems he lived later in his life. His works communicate happiness and optimism to those observed by the intense and vivid colors. Chagall liked to place himself, sometimes with his wife, as an observer of the world, a world of colors seen through a stained glass window. Chagall cultured for more than eighty years an art inspired by the love, memories, Russian and Jewish traditions, historical events or artistic milestones he witnessed and often protagonist.