Chagall

English

Etymology

From a French surname of Hebrew origin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: shə-gälʹ, shə-gălʹ

Noun

Chagall (plural Chagalls)

1. An artwork, or a copy of one, by the famous artist Marc Chagall.
   • 2013 June 29, “Of mice and Manet”, in The Economist‎^[1]:

     [Dr Shigeru Watanabe] has previously shown that Java sparrows are able to distinguish cubist paintings from impressionist and Japanese ones, and that pigeons can tell a Chagall from a Van Gogh, as well as discriminating between the Japanese school and the impressionist.

   • 1973, Anne-Marie Stein, George Carpozi, Three Picassos Before Breakfast: Memoirs of an Art Forger's Wife‎^[2], Hawthorne Books, page 46:

     For the next two weeks David worked resolutely at the drawing board turning out Chagalls in crayon, watercolor, and gouache, and he even experimented boldly in oils.

Proper noun

Chagall

1. A surname from French; (art) used specifically of Marc Chagall (1887–1985), a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin, renown for his use of colors and as a pioneer of modernism, incorporating elements of symbolism, fauvism, and cubism.
   • 2014, James A. Levine, Bingo's Run, New York: Spiegel & Grau, page 100:

     “What's tha most monay for a paintin' eva?” ¶ She smiled. “Well, last month I sold a Braque for two million and a Chagall oil for four million.  […]”

   • 2003 April 23, Sarah Bardem, “The French collections”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Images of flying brides, goats, acrobats and musicians recur again and again in the work of Chagall, each time reworked through the colour spectrum in a world at once harmonious and spiritual.

Derived terms

• Chagallesque (adjective)
• Chagallian (adjective)

 

See also

• Chagall (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia