Shagalov biography

Parisian master. German expressionists idolized him. The artist himself more than once emphasized that he is a Russian artist. Master from Vitebsk. In Vitebsk, he studies at the school of drawing and painting by the artist of the Academy of Arts Yu. School, in which O. Tsadkin, O. Meshchaninov and many other famous artists studied for some time. At the age of 19, he goes to Shagal to St.

Petersburg.

In parallel with the school, Shagal visited the drawing classes S. at the end he decides to leave the school, and in November there was a meeting with L. in November became a student of the school E. Zvantseva, where Bakst and M. this school was guided by the experience of free Parisian studios. At the school, Shagal stayed until the end of April Bakst and M.

Dobuzhinsky. ”The works were exhibited anonymously. The most interesting at the exhibition were the paintings of Shagal - “Death” and “Wedding” since spring Chagal is preparing to leave for Paris. In anticipation of departure - May - it works very intensively. His first attempt to surprise Paris ends to no avail - Shagal’s paintings are not accepted on the autumn interior at the end the artist takes the workshop in the “hive”.

At this time, Moses Chagal changes the former name for everything now familiar - Mark. Paris helped to improve and hone picturesque skills. Shagal finds his measurement of painting. Directiveness, extraordinary poetry and perhaps a childish tendency to fantasies, not like anyone, “Shagalovsky”. They began to talk about him as an eccentric and a miracle. He showed one of his paintings in the salon of independent in one, now he was opened to access to the autumn salon.

His paintings were immediately recognized in the space of these huge exhibitions. A stunning impression was made by the painting "Russia, Oslam and others." The masterpiece followed the masterpiece. These were years of incredible creative take -off. The strong intuitive colorfulness of his paintings opposed the monochrome of the Paris cubism, which was, as it were, a background for his daring picturesque puzzles.

He has his own concepts about the form, the role of geometry and his own ways to create a complex picturesque space in his freedom. The picture arises from many epizodes on the plane. He emphasizes the attention of the viewer on the trifles amazing him. For the salon of independent Shagal, he chooses three fabrics that have become famous - “violinist”, “motherhood” and “self -portrait with seven fingers” - the simplest one carried a sense of mysticism of life, a mystery.

In September, Shagal paintings are shown in Berlin at the first German autumn salon organized by Hervart Walden. Valden in the Gallery “Der Sturm” “The Storm” in May opens up a large retrospective of the works of Shagal - sixty works on paper and forty canvases, among them the last picture painted in Paris - “Dedicated to Apollinera” - Abbemes, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

The First World War is crossing all plans - Shagal returns to Vitebsk. At a time when the Moscow left, led by V. Mayakovsky and K. Malevich, draw fungal cheers-patriotic posters for the Modern Lubok publishing house, Shagal creates a series of military drawings very accurate in feeling the “climate” of the era. He writes scenes of simple life with love and tenderness, portraits of relatives-fragments of some kind of foreseeable family saga.

Later, the artist will identify these chamber sketches for himself as documents, things for the soul. Tigendhold offers to send work to Moscow to the "Exhibition of Painting Year". She opened on March 25, according to the old style in the art salon, K. Moscow saw twenty -five things of the artist at once and was convinced that "the irrational and absurdity of Chagall was not far -fetched." In September, young people leave for Petrograd, where the military liable for military service serves in the Central Military Industrial Committee, which, however, did not particularly prevent him from painting paintings.

Shagal is involved in the cultural activity of the Jewish OPX. He immediately becomes a guide for many young Jewish artists. Years of life in Petrograd and the years of active entry of Chagall into the Russian art environment. He is actively supported by the art bureau N. Pretychina Marsovo Field, 7. Its art was given a separate room at the first exhibition of modern painting in April of the work of Shagal - Petrograd and Summer Liozen and Vitebsk - built into the harmonious visual ranks, prompted by the very measured rhythm of the artist’s life.

In the “window in the country”, the artist looks into his picture - how many remarkable can be found in the most ingenuous motive. A series of "lovers." Somnambulic visions. Color determines a special emotional intonation. Series "Jews": "The old man is red"; "The old man is green." These are portraits and faces. Wandering poor preachers and prophets. Picturesque parables.

Heroes walked "Birthday". In the fall, he is appointed authorized art for the art of the Vitebsk province, organizes work on the design of the city on the first October anniversary and creates an EVCh art school. In May, Shagal invites to Vitebsk to lead the workshop of the architecture and graphics of L. Lisitsky, which seemed to devote himself entirely to the idea of ​​modernist Jewish art.This decision is fatal.

Lisitsky invites Malevich to Vitebsk, a mustache is created. The students of the Shagal become followers of the prophet Suprematism. Shagal had a great success at the 1st state free exhibition of works of arts in the former Winter Palace in the spring-fifteen paintings and drawings. But in Vitebsk he had no place. In early June, he walked in Moscow. Sometimes it was exhibited-the “world of art” Moscow in January is a monograph about him Tigendhold and A.

Shagal teaches to draw homeless Jewish teenagers at the Colonian school in Malakhovka. He illustrated the book of poetry by D. Gofstein “Tristia” but the main thing in the Moscow years is the painting of the hall of the Jewish Chamber Theater. Shagal also designed the first Moscow performance of the theater-“The evening of Sholom Aleichem” Prime Minister January 1, the director A.

Shagal for forty days worked on the design of the hall. It was an unimaginable improvisation. He wrote a panel on the canvases, and not on the walls, fearing that they would be painted during any repair. His Parisian experience and the experience of his work in the context of left -wing Russian art were transformed in them. The element of the carnival reigns in them. At the end of the season - the auditorium briefly turned into an exhibition: "The painting of the artist Mark Shagal." At the end of March, the murals were shown at the “exhibition of the three” N.

Altman, Shagal, D. in these months, Chagall actively writes his “Notes” - the future book “My Life” - and is preparing to leave for Berlin through Lithuania in Kaunas, the admirers of his talent organized an exhibition of his work. The Berlin period he arrived in Germany in May did not last long. Shagal participates in the first Russian art exhibition in the Gallery of Van Dimen.

After it, in the same halls, they showed a personal exhibition of Shagal - sixty -seven canvases, watercolors and drawings. In Berlin, he makes an attempt to publish a folder of etching “My Life” in December-an exhibition in the Barbazanges-Hodeberg gallery.