Visitors film chagall's painting "Avenue of opera". Xinhua News Agency reporter Wu Huimei took a photo
At the Sotheby's booth in the service trade exhibition area of the 4th CIIE, a painting called "Opera Avenue" attracted the interest of many visitors. The painting was created by Marc Chagall, who was born into a Russian Jewish family, and in addition to sketching and sketching, he also designed stages and wrote poems in yidi, and was one of the outstanding representatives of the avant-garde art of the twentieth century.
Mark Chagall
Mark Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, a remote town in northeastern Belarus. His childhood was full of poverty and embarrassment, his father was a hard worker with a sad face, and his mother opened a grocery store. He studied painting during his time in his hometown and accumulated some introductory knowledge and copying skills.
In 1906, Chagall went to St. Petersburg and met the Russian avant-garde art unexpectedly, Chagall felt the "European atmosphere" and began to yearn for Paris. In August 1910, Chagall left Russia and embarked on an artistic journey to Paris.
Arriving in Paris, Chagall quickly blended into the city's strong artistic atmosphere. Museums, galleries, salons, bustling crowds and busy streets all gave him intense sensory stimulation. Chagall called Paris the "second Vitebsk" in his life. Paris Outside the Window is his work completed in 1913 and his last painting on the theme of Paris. In the summer of 1914, he returned to Vitebsk to be reunited with his family and first love, Bella. On July 25, 1915, Chagall and Bella held their wedding.
In 1937, Chagall acquired French citizenship. In 1941, the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York invited painters to move from fascist-occupied France to the United States. In August 1944, Chagall was pleased to learn of the liberation of Paris. The war was drawing to a close, and they could not wait to return to France. However, just a few days later, on September 2, 1944, Bella died. Chagall was so deeply sad that it wasn't until nine months later that he picked up the paintbrush again and created two paintings in honor of his lover: Lights at the Wedding and Beside Her.
On 12 July 1952, Chagall married Valentina Brodskaya, the mistress of the London Fashion Salon and the daughter of the famous capitalist and sugar mill owner Lazar Brodsky. But Chagall's muse in life was bella, and he refused to talk about her to the death as he did with the deceased.
Chagall was both an oil painter and painted a large number of drawings, gouache and etchings, did fine art and costume design for the theatrical stage, and in his later years created a large number of church glass paintings and tile mosaics. Chagall sought to expand the diversity of artistic media, such as ceramics, sculptures and tapestries. From 1956 onwards, the applicability of stained glass brought Chagall's fascinating interpretation of color to the extreme, and he began to accept a large number of commissions to paint glass windows on public buildings such as Gothic cathedrals, chapels, and opera houses. In 1963, he designed a huge ceiling painting for the Paris Opera. The following year, the painter was commissioned to create the glass window painting "Peace" for the United Nations Secretariat building.
EDIT: Wei Zhong
*Synthesized from Xinhua Net, Global Net, And Perspective on Russia