@article{1356100,
      recid = {1356100},
      author = {Lévy-Kuentz, François.},
      title = {Chagall a film / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (53 min.).},
      year = {2006},
      note = {Previously published as DVD.},
      abstract = {This remarkable film retraces the life and work of the  beloved artist Marc Chagall. Much of the narrative is told  in his own words, drawn from his autobiography, Ma Vie (My  Life) and there is unique film footage of Chagall being  interviewed as he paints. An intimate picture of the  mischievous painter and his peripatetic life emerges  through interviews of the many personalities in the art  world which Chagall inhabited : Apollinaire, Bonnard,  Matisse, Picasso, Mayakovski and Malraux. Extensive use of  rare historical film adds richness to this astounding  biography of the man who was born in the shtetl of Vitebsk  in tsarist Russia. When World War I broke out, he was  forced to join the Russian Army and then asked to open an  art school in Vitebsk by the Bolsheviks when they took  power. He left for Paris in 1923 where he and his wife  Bella lived in poverty. Finally, his illustrations for a  special edition of Gogol s Dead Souls attracted wide  admiration. As he put it, "I created my own reality --  neither Cubist nor Impressionist." Fleeing Paris in 1939 he  spent the war years in New York, collaborating on art,  theatre and ballet projects with other artists in exile,  Duchamps, Calder, Tanguy, Stravinsky and Massine. Post-war,  he created monumental works often inspired by the Bible:  the magnificent ceiling of the Paris Opera, the murals for  the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the stained glass  windows for cathedrals in Metz and Reims and the Hadassah  clinic in Jerusalem. In 1984 three large exhibitions in  France celebrated the artist's 97th birthday, one at the  National Museum Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice. His  attempts to connect the Jewish traditions of his childhood  to the artistic modernity of his time yielded a profoundly  original oeuvre somewhat removed from the prevailing  currents of art in the 20th century. As he said, "I chose  painting because it seemed a window through which I could  take flight to another world."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1356100},
}