Active in the twentieth century, Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887 – 1985) was a Russian-French artist who worked in a variety of media but is most renowned for his paintings. Music extracts chosen by Mikhaïl Rudy, Music Director of the exhibition, fit with the composers, operas and ballets brought up by the painter. His parents named him Moishe (Hebrew for Moses) Shagal, but the spelling took on a French flourish when he lived in Paris. For you who don’t know me, I am an Amsterdam-born, London-based electronic music producer, songwriter, singer, performer and early adopter of the mi.mu gloves (wireless data gloves to perform electronic music with gesture).. The Yellow Crucifixion is a painting by Marc Chagall.It was painted in 1943 and is on display at Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, France.. 7. From 1907 to 1910, he studied in Saint Petersburg, at the Imperial Society for the Protection of the Arts and later with Léon Bakst. Marc Chagall, (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France), Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Musical Clown (M. 174), 1957 Lithograph in colors on Arches paper, signed in pencil and numbered 93/150 (there was also an unsigned edition of 1000 with text), published/printed by Maeght/Mourlot, Paris, with margins (deckle at lower and right sheet edge), framed. Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887 in a Hasidic community near Vitebsk, on the northeastern fringe of the Russian Empire, in the state that is now Belarus. Marc Chagall, (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]-died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France), Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer. From October 13 until January 31st, 2016, the Paris Philharmonic is presenting the exhibit “Marc Chagall, The Triumph of Music.” Chagall, who lived to be 98, dying at the end of a normal workday spent in his studio, experienced the major upheavals and horrors of …

Marc Chagall, (born July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belorussia, Russian Empire [now in Belarus]—died March 28, 1985, Saint-Paul, Alpes-Maritimes, France), Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker, and designer who composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. He composed his images based on emotional and poetic associations, rather than on rules of pictorial logic. In a word, there is Chagall.

Description of Artwork. Chagall's official website. The painting done in vivid colors was also an inspiration for the eminent musical of 1964, “Fiddler on the Roof”. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) presents CHAGALL: COLOUR AND MUSIC, the largest exhibition ever devoted to Marc Chagall (1887-1985) in Canada.The exhibition explores, for the first time, the omnipresence of music in the artist’s life and work, through close to 340 works and a major documentary corpus.