Belarusian-French artist (1887–1985)
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He painted floating lovers and fiddlers on roofs in colours so pure that Picasso said he'd be the only one left who understood what colour really was. A Jewish modernist from the Pale of Settlement who synthesized Cubism, Fauvism, and folklore into stained glass for cathedrals and ceilings for the Paris Opéra.
Born Moishe Shagal in 1887 near Vitebsk — then a shtetl in the Russian Empire's Pale of Settlement — he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin before World War I, forging his own style from Eastern European Jewish folklore and modernist forms. He returned to Russia during the war, founded the Vitebsk Museum of Modern Art and People's Art School, and became a leading avant-garde figure before the Bolshevik aftermath drove him back to Paris in 1923. World War II sent him to New York for seven years; he returned to France in 1948 and spent decades producing stained glass for Reims,…
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If Russian painters were condemned to become the pupils of the West they were, I think, rather unfaithful ones by their very nature.
After completing my work [his murals for the Jewish Theater in Moscow) I thought, as has been agreed, that it would be shown in public as a series of my latest things.
At present there is an extremely exaggerated formation of groups (students on the School of Art in Vitebsk) around 'trend'; there are 1. young people following Malevich and 2.
Now at least 'artists have the upper hand' in the town (Vitebsk).
..But it doesn't frighten me, because I studied in France, thank God, and I know of no artist in history who was not 'literary' when it came down to it. Not a single one.
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