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In the wake of World War I’s ravaging of Europe, artists delved into the unconscious mind to confront and grapple with this reality. Poet and critic André Breton, a leader of the Surrealist movement who authored the 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, called this approach “a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism.” Surrealist art emerged in the 1920s with dreamlike and uncanny imagery guided by a variety of techniques such as automatic drawing, which can be likened to a stream of consciousness, to channel psychological experiences.

Although Surrealism was a groundbreaking approach for European art, its practitioners were inspired by Indigenous art and ancient mysticism for reenvisioning how sculptures, paintings, prints, performance art and more could respond to the unsettled world around them.

Surrealist artists were also informed by the Dada movement, which originated in 1916 Zurich and embraced absurdity over the logic that had propelled modernity into violence. Some of the Surrealists had witnessed this firsthand, such as Max Ernst, who served in the trenches during World War I, and Salvador Dalí, whose otherworldly paintings and other work responded to the dawning civil war in Spain.

Other key artists associated with the revolutionary art and literary movement included Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, Frida Kahlo and Meret Oppenheim, all of whom had a distinct perspective on reimagining reality and freeing the unconscious mind from the conventions and restrictions of rational thought. Pablo Picasso showed some of his works in “La Peinture Surréaliste” — the first collective exhibition of Surrealist painting — which opened at Paris’s Galerie Pierre in November of 1925. (Although Magritte is best known as one of the visual Surrealist movement’s most talented practitioners, his famous 1943 painting, The Fifth Season, can be interpreted as a formal break from Surrealism.)

The outbreak of World War II led many in the movement to flee Europe for the Americas, further spreading Surrealism abroad. Generations of modern and contemporary artists were subsequently influenced by the richly symbolic and unearthly imagery of Surrealism, from Joseph Cornell to Arshile Gorky.

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Angelus Excussit Flammag Ignis - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Angelus Excussit Flammag Ignis is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 an...
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The Great Day of the Lord - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
The Great Day of the Lord is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 196...
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Oblatio Munda - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Oblatio Munda is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 1969. Signed a...
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Ex Aegypto Vocavi Filium Meum - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Aegypto Vocavi Filium Meum is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and...
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Aquae Diluvii Super Terram - Lithograph - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Aquae Diluvii Super Terram is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964. It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani between 1967 and 19...
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Panic in the Minefield
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Panic in the Minefield" 2001 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist Mark Kostabi, born 1960. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 62/100 in pen...
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Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm Reference: Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned edition of over 5,000 Condition : Excellent Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish...
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Shimmering Nexus - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Shimmering Nexus emerges as a visual nexus of luminous connections, where forms weave an intricate narrative. The canvas becomes a realm of intersecting elements, each shimmer a poin...
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Surrealist composition - Hand-signed lithograph Leonor Fini Surrealist, 1975
Located in New York, NY
Leonor Fini Surrealist composition, 1975 Colored etching on Arches paper 11 × 15 in 28 × 38 cm Limited edition of 185
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Azure Observer - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Excellent quality printed piece, the material is laminated photographic paper with a black frame Hand signed and numbered. Limited edition of 100. "Azure Observer" presents a capt...
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Intricate Yearning - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
In Intricate Yearning the composition is a testament to the fusion of romantic architecture and human embodiment, gracefully adorned in the tactile poetry of delicate silk. Each elem...
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Enchanted Couture - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Enchanted Couture becomes an epitome of visual eloquence, where romantic architecture finds its muse in the human form, adorned by silken vestments that breathe life into the very es...
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Delicate Desires - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Delicate Desires is a masterpiece what represents celebration of artistic synergy, where romantic architecture and the human form intertwine with seamless elegance, enveloped by the ...
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Divine Drapery - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
The canvas comes alive under Divine Drapery, as the ethereal marriage of romantic architecture and the human form unfolds in a symphony of visual delight. Delicate silk vestments...
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Silk Serenades - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Ethereal beauty manifests itself in Silk serenade transformative work, where the human figure becomes a canvas for architectural wonderment, gracefully veiled in the luxurious embrac...
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Chimeric Radiance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Chimeric Radiance becomes a visual representation of hybrid beauty, where radiance takes on diverse forms. The canvas transforms into a symphony of textures and light, each element a...
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Molten Resonance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Molten Resonance melds fire and artistry into a resonant masterpiece, casting molten hues on the canvas. The fusion of light and form becomes an orchestration of alchemical brillianc...
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Transcendent Brilliance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Transcendent Brilliance embodies brilliance that ascends earthly confines, painting the canvas with ethereal luminosity. Each detail becomes a testament to the transcendence of light...
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Gleaming Transition - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Gleaming Transition embodies a seamless evolution, where forms transition with luminous elegance on the canvas. The play of light becomes a storyteller, guiding the eye through a jou...
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Melted Harmony - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Melted Harmony captures the alchemical dance between elements, where harmony is forged in molten unity. The canvas transforms into a portrait of transformation, as materials meld wit...
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Radiant Mirage - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Radiant Mirage shimmers with an alluring mirage of light and form, an ethereal play of perception on the canvas. Each contour and texture conjures an elusive narrative, evoking the s...
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Ephemeral Radiance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Ephemeral Radiance becomes a portrayal of fleeting beauty, where radiance takes on a transient form. The canvas transforms into an exploration of delicate luminosity, each glow and g...
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Harmonious Resonance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Harmonious Resonance captures the essence of unity, where resonant forms intertwine in luminous harmony on the canvas. Light and shadow become harmonious partners, crafting an enchan...
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Lustrous Reverie - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Lustrous Reverie unfolds as a reverie of luminosity, where textures become a testament to ethereal beauty. The canvas captures the dance of light and shadow, each contour and detail ...
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Polished Nexus - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Polished Nexus invites viewers to an intersection of refined beauty, where each texture finds its nexus in polished elegance on the canvas. The play of light becomes a guide, leading...
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Glistening Cascade - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Glistening Cascade presents a visual symphony of movement, as cascading light shapes into a mesmerizing portrayal. The canvas captures the allure of motion, as glistening forms flow ...
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Cloudy Life - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Silver Resonance embodies the resonance of silver's elegance, as the canvas transforms into a symphony of luminous echoes. The play of light on silver evokes an auditory sense, each ...
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Polished Essence - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Polished Essence evokes a sense of distilled beauty, where essence finds form in polished elegance. The canvas becomes a reflection of purity, each detail refined to an immaculate sh...
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Dark Liquid - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Liquid Chrome encapsulates a fusion of elegance and futurism, where liquid and chrome unite in a contemporary embrace. The canvas becomes a reflective dance, with chrome's sheen tran...
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Flowing Alloy - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Flowing Alloy captures the dynamic poetry of material in motion, as alloy becomes a liquid cascade. The canvas transforms into a cascade of forms, where each droplet echoes the harmo...
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Luminous Alloy - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Luminous Alloy emerges as a tribute to refined elegance, where alloy transcends its rigidity to embrace luminosity. The canvas captures the alchemical dance, where alloy finds fluid ...
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Ethereal Fusion - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Ethereal Fusion encapsulates an exquisite symphony of ethereal materials, their essence melding into a harmonious dance. The canvas captures the convergence of otherworldly forces, w...
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Reflective Radiance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Reflective Radiance embraces the allure of reflection, where radiance becomes a mirror to the soul. The canvas becomes a reflective pool, each gleam a glimpse into ethereal depths. S...
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Melted Brilliance - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Melted Brilliance emerges as a testament to art's transformative prowess, where brilliance is given fluid form. The canvas becomes a playground for creativity, as molten material tak...
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Intricate Fluids - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Intricate Fluids crafts a visual ode to fluid beauty, where bronze takes on a new dimension of form. The canvas captures the sinuous essence of liquid bronze, each curve and contour ...
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Molten Mirage - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Molten Mirage casts an entrancing spell, where molten material takes on the visage of an ephemeral vision. The canvas becomes a realm of shifting shapes, each droplet a transient gli...
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Metallic Flow - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Metallic Flow becomes a symphony of materials and aesthetics, where the fluidity of the metallic takes center stage. The canvas captures the essence of movement, as liquid metal flow...
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Fluid Iron - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Fluid Iron melds the ethereal and the substantial, capturing iron's essence in liquid reverie. The canvas becomes a conduit for creative metamorphosis, where iron's steadfast nature ...
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Liquid Alloy - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Liquid Alloy materializes as an exquisite symphony of aesthetics and materials, where the boundaries between liquid and metal are artfully blurred. The canvas becomes a realm of meta...
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Lustrous Fusion - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Dark Mirage casts an enchanting spell, where the fluidity of silver transforms into an ephemeral vision. The canvas captures the mirage of a liquid silver realm, each shimmering drop...
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Aqueous Steel - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Aqueous Steel becomes an exploration of transformative juxtapositions, where the unyielding nature of steel merges with aqueous fluidity. The canvas becomes a canvas for alchemical i...
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Glistening Mercury - Digital Print by Kevin Abanto - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Glistening Mercury captures the fluid allure of artistry, as mercury transcends its elemental confines. The canvas unveils a mesmerizing dance of fluid metal, where each droplet spar...
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Mesh - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
It's a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2023 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Limited edition. Print-signed and numbered.
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Behind the Sight - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Digital print realized by the italian artist Chiara Santoro in 2023. Stamp signed, limited edition.
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La Dama - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2023
Located in Roma, IT
Digital print realized by the italian artist Chiara Santoro in 2023. Stamp signed, limited edition.
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Carte Postale - Digital Print by Chiara Santoro -2021
Located in Roma, IT
Carte Postale is a digital print realized by the italian artist Chiara Santoro in 2021. Stamp signed.
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Hommage à San Lazzaro - Lithograph after Marc Chagall - 1975
Located in Roma, IT
Hommage à San Lazzaro is a lithograph realized after Marc Chagall in Honor of Gualtieri di San Lazzaro, Director of the Art Review "Xème Siècle". This print (not signed and not numb...
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Extraterrestrial Highway - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2020
Located in Roma, IT
Extraterrestrial Highway - is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2020 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
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Reconstruction - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2022
Located in Roma, IT
Reconstruction is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2022 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed a...
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2022 - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2022
Located in Roma, IT
2022 is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2022 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
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Lay - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro -2022
Located in Roma, IT
Lay is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2022 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered.
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Le Jeu des Acrobates, original lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe II"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall Original Lithograph 1963 Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm As published in Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II. Unsigned, as issued, from the edition of several thousand Condition : Excellent Reference: Mourlot/Gauss 401 Marc Chagall (born in 1887) Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985. The Village Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work. At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well. Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged. The Beehive Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period. Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come. War, Peace and Revolution In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos. To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia. In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good. Flight After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research. Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion...
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Masks - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Masks is a multi-layered composition where the central theme is the masks immersed in the frame of the water theme, in the background a historical scene from the 1990s that marked t...
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2010s Surrealist More Prints

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Digital

Turbata Libertà degli Incanti - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Turbata libertà degli incanti - It's a work of art to which scenes and objects from everyday life are connected. The theme of the sea is hinted at, while the reference to leisure and...
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This Wallpaper is not Avaiable - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
This wallpaper is not available - Representation of the immense artistic landscape of today: from traditionally conceived art to continuous creation in different forms and styles.
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Oriental West - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental West The work aims to represent the fusion and, at the same time, the contrast with the lifestyle of two worlds: on the one hand, the West with its own lifestyle and, on the...
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Atychifobia - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
Atychifobia the word means 'fear of failure'. The work aims to express, on two levels, precisely this: in the foreground movement representing agitation and everyday life, Everything...
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35 01 15 N . 135 45 13 E - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2017
Located in Roma, IT
35 01' 15'' N . 135 45' 13'' E - The work represents the two souls of Japan: that of technological progress combined with secular tradition.
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Digital

Taxi Earth - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Taxi Earth - is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered. Fleeting love while every...
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2010s Surrealist More Prints

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Roma - Digital Collage by Chiara Santoro - 2018
Located in Roma, IT
Roma is a beautiful print on canvas of a digital collage realized in 2019 by the Italian artist Chiara Santoro. Edition of 10. Hand-signed and numbered...
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