Argue that parents Mark wanted to see his heir a clerk in an office shop or an accountant, but he chose a different fate, becoming an artist of world renown, when he was not yet 30 years old.
today the House-Museum of Chagall invites residents of the city together with the Belarusian theatre “Lyalka” after sunset, to celebrate the anniversary of the famous wizard. For guests, BelTA has prepared a quest for Museum exhibitions and street performance. They expect non-standard questions and an unusual sight – a play in which the actors on stilts will work with puppets of different systems and sizes.
After all, the artist, say critics, lived in a world of images that did not fit into the usual scale phenomena. And even if you don’t have to consider painting the ceiling of the Paris “Grand Opera”, to admire the stained glass Windows in the churches of Zurich and Mainz, hand Vitebsk nugget of avant-garde art with nothing to confuse.
first, explain the experts of the artist, his works have a special musical expression. Moreover, they impress by masterly light. You can verify this by clicking on the enfilade of the art the Chagall Museum, which is located not far from the monument to the Maestro, looking at which always admired nicely captured in sculpture, the essence of his art: musician in painting, playing on the strings of the soul.
by the Way, as already informed “the UNION”, in Museum storerooms lean Vitebsk collected about three hundred original graphic works, including etchings and aquatint of the Belarusian nugget. Among them are illustrations for the poem by Nikolai Gogol “Dead souls”, a series of color lithographs on the theme of “the Bible” and series “Twelve tribes of Israel.” The pride of the Museum are considered and more than one hundred graphic works by European masters.
the Opportunity to see these works, said the leaders of the Museum, art lovers have obtained through the German Museum art collector Heinrich Mandel that her first gift was made in 1993. Since then, the replenishment of the funds of the Museum of graphic works of Chagall and the avant-garde artists of the last century has become an annual tradition.
will Forever remain in memory of the Belarusian people and the poetic message of the painter to the native Land, published February 15, 1944 in new York, where he moved from France, fleeing from fascism. In his appeal to the heroic city and the following lines: “I am happy and proud of you, your heroism you have shown and are the worst enemy of the world, I am proud of your people, their creativity and great sense of the life you’ve built.”
