num_pages: 96
description: Colourful dreams and Chagall's world full of everyday miracles 	 		 	 		The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century.				Chagall’s paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native Vitebsk, and the great events that mark the life of ordinary birth, love, marriage and death. They tell of a world full of everyday miracles - in the room of lovers, on the streets of Vitebsk, beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris.				Heaven and earth seem to meet in a topsy-turvy world in which whimsical figures of people and animals float through the air with gravity-defying serenity. 	 		 	 		 About the 		Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series 
language: English
title: Chagall
titlecomplete: Chagall
characters: Marc Chagall
genres: Art History, Biography, Historical, Poetry, Nonfiction, Jewish, Art, 20th Century, Russia, Art and Photography
ratings_count: 1317
publisher: TASCHEN