Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Farmer at the Well [vase]

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Farmer at the Well [vase]
Alternate Title: 
Le Paysan au puits
Image View: 
Overall view from front
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: 
1952 (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; oxides; glazes
Technique: 
fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming); painting and painting techniques
Subjects: 
animal; decorative arts; genre; human figure; folkloric; dreamlike; village; goat
Description: 
In the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics, to which he applied his familiar motifs. (In this work, the village, goat and floating woman). 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. (Source: Chagall Museum [website]; http://en.musees-nationaux-alpesmaritimes.fr/chagall/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-CHAGALL-LPP-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.