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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
student
photography
milestone
emergence
returned
landscape
subsequent
modest
institution
reproduction
technologies
minerals
performance
technique
again left
watercolors
period
different
harmony
artists
transmitted
until
community
members
snowflakes
Museum
enthusiasm
contact
density
selection
composition
distinguished
ideological
phenomenon
traditions
creation
resistant
absolutely
landscapes
soldiers
province
sepia
musician
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finally
sixties
troubles
development
canvas
unshakable
decorative
school
workshop
characteristic
documentary
background
combination
available
professional
festivals
educational
arrogance
communal
number
manufacture
movements