But behind Chagall's role as a pioneer of modern art lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, lost love, exile, and the miracle of survival

But behind Chagall's role as a pioneer of modern art lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, lost love, exile, and the miracle of survival. Born the son of a Russian 'When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really i. Picasso said this in the 1950s, when he and Chagall were eminent neighbours living in splendour on the Cote d'Azur. But behind Chagall's role as a pioneer of modern art lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, lost love, exile, and the miracle of survival.

Chagall: Love And Exile Paperback – May 25 2010. Jackie Wullschlager's new biography provides an extraordinary look at the painter's evolution, from a humble Jewish village in Russia, to chaotic St. Petersburg during the revolution, to full flower in Paris and beyond. by Jackie Wullschlager (Author). The depth of detail is astonishing; the illustrations and color plates beautifully illustrate the many stages of Chagall's artistic development; and Wullschlager dissects Chagall's marriages in loving detail, teasing out the complexities of dependence and power that bound (but also enriched) them.

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Jackie Wullschlager, art critic of the Financial Times, describes the gulf between man and rep-utation with .

Jackie Wullschlager, art critic of the Financial Times, describes the gulf between man and rep-utation with admirable serenity. Vitebsk is brought to life as a place beyond the pale, which is to say that large and featureless stretch of Russia where Jews were officially allowed to live. Chagall's father lugged herring barrels for a living.

The Chagall who died in the south of France a world-famous artist and a friend of the Rolling Stones' bass guitarist Bill Wyman, was born Moyshe Shagal, the son of a herring seller, in Vitebsk on the fringes of the Russian empire. Thirty at the time of the October revolution, he was a commissar of arts in the revolution's palmy early days, but fled the Soviet system in 1922.

Throughout, as Jackie Wullschlager makes plain in this groundbreaking biography, he never ceased giving form .

Throughout, as Jackie Wullschlager makes plain in this groundbreaking biography, he never ceased giving form on canvas to his dreams, longings, and memories. His subject, more often than not, was the shtetl life of his childhood, the wooden huts and synagogues, the goatherds, rabbis, and violinists-the whole lost world of Eastern European Jewry.

Books Books of The Times. A Life of Chagall, the Shtetl Modernist. Once in America he seemed lost, a permanent exile.

AUTHOR: Wullschlager, Jackie. TITLE: Chagall: Love and Exile. Jackie Wullschlager is Chief Art Critic of the Financial Times, where she has worked since 1986. Acceptable - Very well read. Her books include the prize-winning Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller, and an acclaimed group biography of Victorian children's writers, Inventing Wonderland. She lives in London with her husband and three children. Country of Publication.

Jackie Wullschlager shows us all this and more, in her beautifully produced book

Jackie Wullschlager shows us all this and more, in her beautifully produced book. She has talked to Chagall's surviving friends, she has a sharp sense of what is gorgeously original in the paintings and also of what is tediously self-cannibalising, and she writes prose that registers intense feeling yet is coolly well organised. Chagall's work, however, never recaptured the surprise, drama, originality or rigour of his earlier pieces.

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