Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Fiancés (Blue)
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Fiancés (Blue)
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Alternate Title:
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Les Fiancés (bleus)
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Image View:
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Detail, round base of vase decorated with village and moon
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Creator:
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Marc Chagall (Belorussian ceramicist, 1887-1985)
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Location:
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repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
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Location Note:
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36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
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GPS:
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+43.709167+7.269536
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Date:
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1962 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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vase
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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fired ceramic: white clay; slips; oxides
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Technique:
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casting (process); fabrication attributes: ceramics; painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); folkloric; dreamlike; marriage; lovers
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Description:
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In the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics, to which he applied his familiar motifs. (In this case betrothed lovers.) During a decade he produced 220 ceramic works. In Chagall's "vase-sculptures", the handles and feet of the ceramics become arms, busts, legs and wings, accentuating their anthropomorphic or zoomorphic character. This piece is slip-cast, decorated with slips and oxides and engraved (sgraffito) with a knife and dry point. (Source: Chagall Museum [website]; http://en.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/chagall/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-CHAGALL-LFB-A05
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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