MARC CHAGALL

Marc Chagall was born on July 7, 1887, in Vitebsk (Russia). He died on March 28, 1985, in Saint-Paul (France).

Marc Chagall was the eldest of nine children born near Vitebsk, Russia. He was Jews. During his school days, Chagall adopted the habit of drawing and copying images from books. In 1910 he moved to St.Petersburg to continue his studies. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910, too. His influence is as vast as the number of styles he assimilated to create his work. He is much like Picasso, an example of a modern artist.

SEE YOU SOON DAVID HOCKNEY

"I live the same way as I have for years; I'm just a worker. Artists are. Michelangelo, Picasso - they worked all the time. In the last four years of his life, Van Gogh's time is almost all accounted for. He did all those drawings, wrote all those letters. What other time was left over? Just enough for sleeping, that's all. But you never hear about artists staying in bed, because they don't."

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LOVING VINCENT

Vincent Van Gogh is a well-known post-impressionist artist. Colour was the chief symbol of  expression for him. He was born in Holland in 1853 and he died in 1890. He was the son of a pastor and educated in a religious and cultured atmosphere. Vincent was highly emotional, lacked self-confidence and struggled with his identity. it took years for him to discover his calling as an artist. You can read his biography and discover the stories about his life and work.

Virtual Vincent Van Gogh Museum (video)

Vincent (Starry, starry Night) - Don Mclean lryrics

Van Gogh Alive Exhibition (Video)
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DAVID HOCKNEY - PORTRAITS - GUGGENHEIM BILBAO

David Hockney returns to Guggenheim Bilbao with a remarkable new body of work. Embracing portraiture with a renewed creative vigour. he offers an intimate snapshot of the LA art world and the people who have crossed his path over the last two or three years.

After his monumental landscape exhibition, Hockney turned away from painting his Yorkshire home, returning to Los Angeles. Over the months that followed, he became absorved by the genre and invited sitters from all areas of his life into his studio.

His subjects include office staff, fellow artists, curators and gallerists. Each work is the same size, showing his sitters in the same chair, against the same vivid blue background and all were painted in the same time frame of three days.

David was born in Bradford, England, in 1937. He attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. He loved books and was interested in art from an early age, admiring Picasso, Matisse and Fragonard.