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Mwamedi Chiwaya.

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Marc Chagall. The Death, 1908. St. Petersburg.

In Russia at that time, Jewish children were not allowed to attend regular Russian schools or universities. Their movement within the city was also restricted. Chagall therefore received his primary education at the local Jewish religious school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible. At the age of 13, his mother tried to enroll him in a Russian high school, and he recalled, “But in that school, they don’t take Jews. Without a moment’s hesitation, my courageous mother walks up to a professor.” She offered the headmaster 50 roubles to let him attend, which he accepted. ^{(in wikipedia)}

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Marc Chagall. To My Betrothed, 1911. Paris.

Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia Museum of Art

The October Revolution of 1917 was a dangerous time for Chagall although it also offered opportunity. By then he was one of the Soviet Union’s most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, which enjoyed special privileges and prestige as the “aesthetic arm of the revolution. He was offered a notable position as a commissar of visual arts for the country, but preferred something less political, and instead accepted a job as commissar of arts for Vitebsk. This resulted in his initiating the Vitebsk Arts College which, adds Lewis, became the “most distinguished school of art in the Soviet Union.”

It obtained for its faculty some of the most important artists in the country, such as El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich. He also added his first teacher, Yehuda Pen. Chagall tried to create an atmosphere of a collective of independently minded artists, each with their own unique style. However, this would soon prove to be difficult as a few of the major faculty members preferred a Suprematist art of squares and circles, and disapproved of Chagall’s attempt at creating “bourgeois individualism”. Chagall then resigned as commissar and relocated to Moscow. (in Wikipedia)

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Schiavonetti.  Soul Leaving the Body, 1808.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Schiavonetti

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Sebastian Komicz.

http://www.sebastiankomicz.com/

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