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Did You Know?

Marc Chagall wrote his own biography called My Life.Look for it in a library or on the internet. It is inspirational reading.

The Peace Window was a stained-glass window that Chagall made for the United Nations building in New York City.The enormous masterpiece is 3.7 meters high and 4.6meters wide. According to the painter, it is inspired by the reading of the Torah and the Bible. At the inauguration ceremony of the Peace Window, Chagall invited those present"not only to see the window, but to feel it."

He said:"I would like people to be as moved as I was when I participated in this work that was done for people of all countries in the name of peace and love."

Marc Chagall lived for 97 years. He died in 1985. We can say that his life was devoted to painting, a completely original painting which later inspired the Surrealist movement. Although his painting is original, we cannot deny the influences that led to its originality.

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Peace Window,1964,Marc Chaqall(1887-1985)

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