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SELF-PORTRAIT WITH SEVEN FINGERS
MARC CHAGALL (MARK ZAKHAROVICH SHAGAL)
(1889 – 1985) (OFTEN REPORTED HE WAS BORN IN 1887)
“On 7 July 1887 (1889) Moyshe Segal was born at Vitebsk in Belorussia, not
far from the Lithuanian border, to a Yiddish-speaking family of Hassidic Jews. ... In Chagall: Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers, you can see that Chagall doesn’t conform to any one style of painting, there are portions of many influences; Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Surrealism. ... You can see the Cubist influence in Chagall’s portrait of himself. ... The main focal point is Chagall’s’ hand with seven fingers; this has to do with his Jewish background, it comes from a Yiddish folk expression, “To do something with seven fingers is to do it well, and very fast. ... 1) “The number seven is heavy with mystical overtones in Jewish expression, figuring strongly with the concept of creation. God created the world in seven days. The Kabbalah states that God created seven parallel universes to our physical one. ... With his seven fingers, Chagall creates new worlds with paint on canvas. ...
Marc Chagall
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers
1913
Tami Tucker-Whelan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Boguslawski, Alexander. ... html
Self Portrait with Seven Fingers.
Approximate Word count = 1122
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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