(1887–1985), artist. Marc Chagall was one of the most prominent European artists of the modern age. To this day, the frequent exhibitions of his work in many countries continue to draw large crowds. His art is polyphonic, combining the formal concerns of several modernist trends with cultural representations and an interest in the fantastic and the grotesque. Chagall combined a variety of sources, including aspects of Jewish, Russian, and French culture and images from Christian art, in his own whimsical art, based on his reinvented biography.
