Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Russian painter, was one of the great masters of the School of Paris and was also acclaimed as a forerunner of surrealism. Marc Chagall was born Moishe Shagal on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk to a poor Jewish family. The years of...

When Russian-born artist Marc Chagall died in 1985 at age ninety-seven, he left behind a remarkably prolific and varied body of work. In a career that spanned over three-quarters of a century, Chagall produced paintings, stained glass, mosaics,...

Anyone who has teenagers or teaches them knows that at times (okay, almost all the time), they're reluctant to share information and reveal their feelings about things they have experienced. My goal here was for my teenaged art students to discover that...

Kaufmann, David Forward 04-02-2004 Marc Chagall's paintings are almost too easy to like. To begin with, Chagall was technically an excellent artist. Picasso -- who never cared for Chagall's subject matter and did not particularly like him as a person -- claimed that...

Amadeo Modigliani's life as an artist was marred by poverty, stormy relationships and drug use, and cut short by an early death.Now Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has put together an exhibition that allows a profound re-evaluation of this Italian's meteoric career by placing his work in...

From Russia — with qualms.Works by Matisse, Van Gogh, Cezanne and other masterpieces from Russian museums are finally hanging in a London gallery after a last-minute legal change eased Moscow's fears that the paintings could be seized in legal action if they traveled to Britain.The...