08.07.2013                      02.Aw.5773                      Rosch Chodesch

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This Week in History: Painter of Poetry

On July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk, Belarus, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century was born. Marc – born Moishe – Chagall was a French painter, printmaker and designer, seemingly able to paint poetry with wild and whimsical dream-like images of flying lovers, blue cows and green fiddlers on roofs.

Chagall was raised in a devoutly Jewish household as the eldest of nine children. His father, Khatskel-Mordechai Shagal, worked in a fish warehouse, while his mother, Feiga- Ita Chernina, ran a small grocery store. Both adhered to Hasidic Jewish religious beliefs, which forbade graphic representation of anything created by God. Thus Chagall grew up in a home devoid of images. Still, he pestered his mother until she took him to an art school run by a local portraitist. Chagall, in his late teens, was the only student who used the vivid color violet, according to one biography….