again left
VITEBSK ART SCHOOL (part 2)
Having learned the lessons of new European art and declaring himself to be a rapidly maturing master, M. Chagall returned to Vitebsk on the eve of the First World War. In fact, in less than a decade, from an unknown student of a provincial artist, he grows into one of the leading masters of the emerging avant-garde. And this is not surprising if you pay attention to how easily and organically he created his original art system, attracting childishly naive imagination and romantic metaphor, intrepidly departing from realism and ahead of the masters of Western Europe, whose evolution indicates the intense efforts made to free oneself from the tenacious embrace of the artistic tradition. Continue reading
school
combination
communal
manufacture
snowflakes
workshop
province
decorative
canvas
milestone
members
landscapes
festivals
density
number
technique
harmony
community
resistant
composition
performance
characteristic
arrogance
troubles
photography
movements
artists
musician
institution
reproduction
selection
landscape
phenomenon
traditions
emergence
contact
again left
technologies
watercolors
sepia
finally
sixties
creation
educational
absolutely
modest
professional
development
background
period
until
subsequent
unshakable
transmitted
returned
soldiers
distinguished
different
available
minerals
student
various
Museum
ideological
documentary
enthusiasm