Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Blue Donkey [vase]
Alternate Title:
L'Ane bleu
Image View:
General view from front; arms and head hand-built, added to wheel-thrown vase shape
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian ceramicist, 1887-1985)
Location:
repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
GPS:
43.709167 7.269536
Date:
1954 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
vase
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
fired ceramic: white clay; glazes
Technique:
fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
animal; decorative arts; dreamlike; folkloric; donkey; village
Description:
In the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics, to which he applied his familiar motifs. (In this work, the village, bird and blue and yellow donkey). During a decade he produced 220 ceramic works. Chagall, unlike most artists, was not content with decorating pieces made by professional potters. He himself molded his clay and created original forms. This work combines portions that are wheel-thrown and hand-built, engraved (sgraffito) with a knife and dry-point, and painted with glazes. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-LAB-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Blue Donkey [vase]