Friday, June 5, 2009

Modern Art of MARC CHAGALL


Modern art is a term that refers to artistic works formed during the period extending roughly from the 1860s through the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually connected with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation.

As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest symbolic artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time.

Marc Chagall's artworks are hard to categorize. Working in the pre-World War I Paris art world, he was concerned with avant-garde currents; however, his work was consistently on the fringes of popular art movements and emerging trends, including Cubism and Fauvism, among others. He was directly associated with the Paris School and its exponents, including Amedeo Modigliani.

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