Take Your Family With You: On the 135th Anniversary of Marc Chagall

Abstract

The article discusses several works by Mark Zakharovich Chagall, created in the first Parisian period and in Vitebsk. The choice of works connected with the purpose of studying the relationship with the world-famous native painter and poet. The Parisian works presented by «Birth» (1911) and «Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers» (1913) give a self-reflection idea of one's own destiny and the author's personal mythology construction. Also attracted one of the large Vitebsk paintings by Marc Chagall – "Over the City" (1914-1918), left by him in Russia before his emigration. In this work, the attitude to the motherland is concentrated, carried by him in many ways through all the subsequent years of creativity.