Born in the Jewish village of Vitebsk in 1887, this painter lived till the ripe old age of 97
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Jeopary Questions page 1749 - MONKEY BUSINESS - TriviaBistro ...  20th CENTURY ARTISTS: Jackson Pollock & this Rotterdam-born artist created ... the Jewish village of Vitebsk in 1887, this painter lived till the ripe old age of 97.
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Marc Chagall - Painter, Illustrator - Biography.com  Apr 6, 2016 ... Born in the Russian Empire, Marc Chagall became one of the great artists of his ... After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist ... community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. ... At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began...
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Vitebsk, the Old Man Over the Village | The Art Institute of Chicago  Vitebsk, the Old Man Over the Village ... French, born Belarus, 1887-1985 ... Written in Hebrew above the snowy sky is the name of the city of Vitebsk, Marc Chagall's birthplace. ... be seen as an image of the artist metaphorically carrying his home with him. ... Open daily 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Thursday until 8:00 p.m..
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Marc Chagall - Wikipedia  Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated ... Marc Chagall was born Moishe Segal in a Lithuanian Jewish family in ... near the city of Vitebsk (Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire) in 1887. .... But Chagall arrived from Russia with "a ripe color gift, a fresh, unashamed...
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The Praying Jew | The Art Institute of Chicago  French, born Vitebsk, Russia (present-day Belarus), 18871985 ... painted in 1914 during a visit to his home town of Vitebsk (in present-day Belarus). ... the model for The Praying Jew was an old beggar whom the artist invited to sit for ... to return to Paris after his 1914 visit to Vitebsk, but was detained in Russia until 1923 by...
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Andy Warhol - Belcourt Art Leasing  illustrator before becoming a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. ... February 22, 1987, in New York City. At the age of 8, ... It was during these months, while ... had recognized his son's artistic talents, and in his will he dictated that his life savings go toward ... of 58 from a heart attack following gallbladder surgery.
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Marc Chagall - Wikipedia  Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated ... He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's ... founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922. .... Chagall therefore received his primary education at the local Jewish...
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Art - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Jan Vermeer lived his entire life in this city known for its pottery Delft, His art sold well, ... Fragonard 17321806 was a French painter and printmaker whose late ... to them, Renoir was born in Limoges known for porcelain, & at age 13 he was a .... Le Corbusier 1887  1965 was an architect, designer, urbanist, and one of the...
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George Segal Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story  While other Pop artists (Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg and others) focused on logos, labels, ... George Segal was born in New York City on November 26, 1924 to Jewish ... His father, who had come to America in 1922, would lose all his brothers at the .... George Segal (Modern Master Series) ... ArtStory: Roy Lichtenstein.
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Picasso - byermedia  After his move to Paris in 1904, Picasso's rose period paintings took on a warmer ... The blue period of his life was from 1901-1904 when he was 22 years old. .... I looked for myself, the reflected ego like the naked women in the picture. ... In works such as The Old Guitarist (1903), Picasso painted in blue tones to evoke the...
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At 57, Francoise Gilot Recalls Life with Picasso but Enjoys It with ...  Jul 30, 1979 ... The years have been gentle to Franoise Gilot. ... own rightand not the companion of Pablo Picasso who appealed to Dr. Jonas Salk, ... You think you'll never get to the top, but once you're there, you see there's ... The Nazis had banned modern art, she recalls, so it was part of the Resistance to paint.
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Van Cliburn, U.S. pianist famous for win at Moscow competition ...  Feb 27, 2013 ... In April 1958, Mr. Cliburn, then 23, went to Moscow at the height of the Cold ... in the new Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for his rendition of the ... He moved to Fort Worth, where he bought a mansion and became ... of years in his 20s, they would live together until her death in 1994 at age 97.
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Vincent van Gogh Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter 1853  Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work, ... After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 ..... daughter and ten years his senior, often joined him on his painting forays. .... By the time Gauguin arrived on October 23, 1888, he found the yellow house...
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Pablo Picasso Biography - life, family, children, name, history ...  The Spanish painter, sculptor, and graphic artist Pablo Picasso was one of the most ... When the family moved to Barcelona, Spain, in 1896, Picasso easily gained ... In these paintings the color became more natural, delicate, and tender in its range, ... After Picasso experimented with the new medium of collage, he returned...
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Marc Chagall. Biography. - Olga's Gallery  Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a Russian-Jewish painter of the 20th Century and one of ... She also encouraged him to exercise his abilities and he was soon taking lessons in ... In 1909, while on a visit to Vitebsk, Chagall met Bella Rosenfeld, the ... The artist quickly made the acquaintance of Pablo Picasso and Georges...
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Irving Berlin - Expand Your Mind - Revolvy  Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Baline, May 11, 1888  September 22, 1989) was an ... Born in Imperial Russia , Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. ... When the Beilin family reached Ellis Island, Israel was put in a pen with his brother ... He found that if he sang some of the songs while selling papers, people...
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Franz Kafka - Wikipedia  Franz Kafka (3 July 1883  3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short ... He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education he was employed ... He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis. ..... interprets Der Process (The Trial) as the embodiment of the "triple dimension of Jewish...
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How a Poor Jewish Kid From Upstate New York Became Kirk Douglas  May 31, 2012 ... Born Issur Danielovitch, the 95-year-old star of "Spartacus" looks back on his legendary career. ... 52 years after the release of his most famous film, Spartacus, his thick hair, once blonde, .... Great article on a living legend.
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Old Masters: Greatest European Painters - Visual Arts Encyclopedia  Old Masters (c.1200-1830): Biographies and Paintings of Famous European Painters. ... Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Greatest Renaissance oil painter/draftsman (The Last Supper, Mona Lisa). Filippino Lippi ... Hans Holbein The Younger (1497-1543) .... Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) ... Canaletto (1697-1768)
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Marc Chagall. Biography. - Olga's Gallery  Marc Chagall (1887-1985) was a Russian-Jewish painter of the 20th Century ... Quite soon, Chagall had broadened his understanding of the world to the point where he no ... One of his earliest works is Young Girl on a Sofa (1907), a portrait of his ... The Cubist influence can clearly be seen in such works as I and the Village...
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Marc Chagall - Wikipedia  Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist. An early modernist, he was associated ... He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris ..... The majority of his scenes of life in Vitebsk were painted while living in Paris, and ..... The Father, Paris (1911) Muse d'Art et d'Histoire du Judasme.