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Tate Liverpool + RIBA North Exhibition

Chagall: Modern Master

8 June – 6 October 2013
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Marc Chagall (1887–1985) is one of the great artists of the last century. Bringing together more than sixty paintings and a selection of works on paper from across the world, Chagall: Modern Master takes a fresh look at this compelling artist who created some of the most poetic and enduring images of the twentieth century. This exhibition will be the first major presentation of the Russian painter’s work in the UK for more than fifteen years. 

The exhibition will explore Chagall’s development from the ‘naïve’ folkloristic narratives in his early work, towards his unique style combining fauve, cubist, expressionist and suprematist influences while reflecting his native Jewish Russian culture.

Chagall: Modern Master will focus on the artist’s time in Paris before the First world War, his visit to Berlin and his exhibition there in 1914, and the years he spent in his native Russia around the time of the Revolution in 1917. Chagall’s experiences during this period reinforced his highly personal visual language.  The universal, timeless themes of these early works – including love, suffering and death – alongside self-portraits and depictions of the circus, music and peasants, recurred and formed the core of his art for the remainder of his long career.

Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

Mann Island
Liverpool L3 1BP
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8 June – 6 October 2013

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  • Marc Chagall and his family photographed by Therese Bonney in his studio on Avenue d'Orleans, Paris, c.1923

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    A forthcoming exhibition at Tate Liverpool focuses on how Marc Chagall combined the Jewish folkloric painterly roots of his native Russia and the Parisian avant-garde, with its Fauvist, Cubist, Expressionist and Suprematist styles, to create a visual language of its own. To date, art historians have preferred shining a light on his contemporaries Malevich, El Lissitzky and Rodchenko, but Chagall's biographer argues he was 'the most enduring figurative artist of the Russian avant-garde, and the most emotionally engaging one'

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