Marc Chagall was born in 1887 in Vitebsk in the Russian Empire. He was an artist who was influenced by Cubism, Fauvism and Surrealism. "My art is an extravagant art, a flaming vermilion, a blue soul flooding over my paintings," he says. His paintings have symbols of his childhood and of his Jewish religion inter mixed into the main work. Vitebsk was where he was born and is where he was inspired to become an artist. "The soil that nourished the roots of my art was Vitesbsk." He started his career as an artist like any other, poor and living in hardship but by 1930 he was known world wide.
In 1906 Marc decided that he wanted to pursue his passion to become an artist. The problem was that his parents did not want him to do this. After getting into a furious argument with his father Marc fled to St. Petersburg with nothing but a few roubles. He began to study but it was too difficult for him in St Petersburg because he was Jewish and Jews were given a very hard time there in that time, so he moved to Paris.
I find that when I first looked at Marc's paintings i was like, "wtf is this," but when you see it a few times and really take the time to examin it them they are very detailed. He uses numerous shades of the same colour and throws all kinds of different symbols into all of his paintings. I like how he puts different shapes into is paintings using colour alone.