Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Blue Donkey [vase]
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Alternate Title:
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L'Ane bleu
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Image View:
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Detail of sgraffito, built-up texture and layered glazes
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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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1954 (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; glazes
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Technique:
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fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
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Subjects:
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animal; decorative arts; dreamlike; folkloric; donkey; village
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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 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.oxfordartonline.com/)
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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-LAB-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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