Chagall by Jackie Wullschlager

“When Matisse dies,”  Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. Yet behind this triumph lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, frustration, lost love, exile—and above all the miracle of survival.

Born into near poverty in Russia in 1887, the son of a Jewish herring merchant, Chagall fled the repressive “potato-colored” tsarist empire in 1911 for Paris.  There he worked alongside Modigliani and Léger in the tumbledown tenement called La Ruche, where “one either died or came out famous.”  But turmoil lay ahead—war and revolution; a period as an improbable artistic commissar in the young Soviet Union; a difficult existence in Weimar Germany, occupied France, and eventually the United States.

Throughout, as Jackie Wullschlager makes plain in this groundbreaking biography, he never ceased giving form on canvas to his dreams, longings, and memories. His subject, more often than not, was the shtetl life of his childhood, the wooden huts and synagogues, the goatherds, rabbis, and violinists—the whole lost world of Eastern European Jewry.

Wullschlager brilliantly describes this world and evokes the characters who peopled it: Chagall’s passionate, energetic mother, Feiga-Ita; his eccentric fellow painter and teacher Bakst; his clever, intense first wife, Bella; their glamorous daughter, Ida; his tough-minded final companion and wife, Vava; and the colorful, tragic array of artist, actor, and writer friends who perished under the Stalinist regime.

Wullschlager explores in detail Chagall’s complex relationship with Russia and makes clear the Russian dimension he brought to Western modernism. She shows how, as André Breton put it, “under his sole impulse, metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting,” and helped shape the new surrealist movement. As art critic of the Financial Times, she provides a breadth of knowledge on Chagall’s work, and at the same time as an experienced biographer she brings Chagall the man fully to life—ambitious, charming, suspicious, funny, contradictory, dependent, but above all obsessively determined to produce art of singular beauty and emotional depth.

Drawing upon hitherto unseen archival material, including numerous letters from the family collection in Paris, and illustrated with nearly two hundred paintings, drawings, and photographs, Chagall is a landmark biography to rank with Hilary Spurling’s Matisse and John Richardson’s Picasso (from the Hardcover edition).

About the Author
Jackie Wullschlager is chief art critic for the Financial Times. Her books include a prizewinning life of Hans Christian Andersen and an acclaimed group biography of children’s book writers,  Inventing Wonderland (from the Hardcover edition).

About Iceberg
The Iceberg Reader revolutionizes the reading experience, making it easier than ever to browse, buy and enjoy books.

Features
- Attractive interface provides a natural reading experience with full pagination.
- Table of Contents incorporates one click navigation.
- Vertical and horizontal page orientation.
- Adjust font size with a pinch, text reflows automatically.
- Search the text within a book.
- Create margin notes with user notation.

About Scrollmotion
ScrollMotion, creator of the Iceberg Reader, is a content technology company based in New York City. For more information, visit www.scrollmotion.com.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Category:  Books
Released:  May 27, 2010
Publisher:  ScrollMotion, Inc
Price:  $39.99 (buy app)

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Who will be the next  ”A Star is born“?  The colorful season of  ”A Star is born“ now coming to your iPhone.  All the  performance,  all the participants,  in this original and exciting application.  Please take part in the competition that looks  for the next biggest singer of  Israel.  Download this application now and you won’t stop singing!

Features:

1. Update of last performance each week throughout the season.
2. The funniest auditions of the season.
3. Best performance from last season.
4. Most viewed performance.
5. Save your favorite performance.
6. Links to each participant’s Facebook page.

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הורידו עכשיו את האפליקציה ולא תוכלו להפסיק לשיר!

באפליקציה:
- עדכון הביצועים מהתכניות האחרונות מדי שבוע לאורך כל העונה
- האודישנים הקורעים והמרגשים מהעונה הנוכחית
- מיטב הביצועים מעונות קודמות
- הביצועים הכי נצפים
- שמירת ביצועים מועדפים
- קישור לדף הפייסבוק של כל מתמודד

צפייה מהנה!

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Category: Entertainment
Released:  May 17, 2010
Publisher: Keshet Broadcasting Ltd.
Price: $3.99 (buy app)

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In honor of this summer’s anniversary, the Festival will showcase the best music, art, film and literature that the Jewish world has to offer. The lineup of artists from Israel, Europe and the United States in unbelieveable!

The Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow is one of the most important and largest events of  its kind in the world.  The First Festival took place in 1988 and its program focused on a scholarly conference on the encounter between two cultures, Jewish and Polish.

It was a modest occasion but it turned out to have enormous significance, considering the boldness of the subject matter, upon which the communist authorities of the day looked askance.

Key Features:

• Full Program with Places, Dates and Description (available offline)
• Categories View – You can filter events which are interesting for You and browse through them instantly
• Day by Day – see what’s comming.
• Around Me – check what Events are around You
• Search through the whole Events
• iTunes link (where available)
• Photos for Events
• Offline Maps

The Festival is a span of the symbolic bridge where Poles and Jews meet to strengthen the process of understanding and reconciliation. The Jewish Culture Festival in Cracow is, after all, a symbol of tolerance, pluralism, and the faith that we have a chance, through the celebration of Jewish culture and the celebration of life, to build mutual relations based on truth and respect.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Category: Entertainment
Released: Jun 18, 2010
Publisher: CocoLab.pl
Price: Free (get app)

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Faces iMake

Piven, winner of  Time Magazine’s, ”One of  Ten in Best Children’s Books” and straight off the pages of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, says about Faces iMake:

“I wanted Faces iMake to be a virtual workshop with me and reflect what happens in the real world when you work with objects. Therefore you can rotate and move objects around but you cannot resize them. This limitation which might seem annoying at first makes you become more resourceful and creative. The idea is to play and to play some more. All great art is born from playing. Therefore Faces iMake is a game as much as it is an art workshop.”

Faces iMake features:

• Start with 20 different face shapes
• Select from over 150 objects to make faces
• Rotate and layer objects
• Save faces to your photo gallery or assign to contacts
• Including Piven’s own Art Lessons filmed in his studio in
• Barcelona
• Upload your masterpieces to Facebook or share them by email

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad

Category: Entertainment, Family, Kids,Educational, Puzzle, Social Networking
Released: May 31, 2010
Publisher: iMagine machine LLC
Price: Free (get app)

How app works?

About Hanoch Piven

Hanoch Piven (b. August 21, 1963 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures. was born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. He came to the United States in 1987 and graduated from the School of Piven Visual Arts, in New York, in 1992. Piven returned to Israel in 1995, where he began writing and illustrating for the daily Haaretz.

His illustrated compositions are assembled from common objects and scraps of materials, including items which might be associated with the subject (for example, using bologna and liquor bottles to create Boris Yeltsin for Haaretz in 2000 or brains, magnifying glasses and electrical wire to create Stephen Hawking for Die Weltwoche in 2006).

His caricatures appear in Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic Monthly, The Times, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications.

In 2003, Piven began conducting international workshops in such cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Toronto and others. The workshops follow the principles of Piven’s own collage technique and encourage young people to experiment with common day-today objects and pieces of the world around them to create their own works of art.

Visit Piven’s World and read interview with Hanoch Piven (Illustration Friday).

The magazine is published in English for international audience and features essays and columns by today’s leading writers. It is a valuable resource to collectors, critics, artists, art dealers and all those interested in the arts specifically those with a keen interest in the Israeli art scene.

Programma is published by Crossfields TLV, a publishing house and media company based in the heart of Tel Aviv in cooperation with Rothschild 69 Kunsthalle to be opened in Tel Aviv by fall 2010.

The publisher

Crossfields TLV is an innovative publishing and media company, based in the heart of Tel Aviv. Crossfields TLV’s first project, back in 2006, was the first edition of City Guide Tel Aviv, a modern guide to the city of Tel Aviv. The book won great success among both locals and around the world, declared by many as “The must-have book if you’re visiting Tel Aviv”.

The second edition, published in May 2008, is celebrating the city’s 100 birthday and is now available in bookstores and online at www.cityguidetelaviv.com.

Crossfields TLV is also the publisher of “Hayoman” – daily and weekly diaries in Hebrew that include guides to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, New york, London, Paris and Berlin.

The team

Editor: Rachella Sandbank
Graphic Editor and Content advisor: Lahav Halevy
Producer: Dalit Nemirovsky
Content Editor: Noam Segal
Copy Editing: Anat Rosenberg
Translation: Talya Halkin, Hemda Rosenbaum
Graphic Design: BigEyes Design
Printed in Israel by: A.R. Printing Ltd.
Publishers: Mati Broudo and Dalit Nemirovsky

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch

Category: Books
Released: November 25, 2009
Publisher: Moshe Alima
Size: 22.0 MB
Price: Free (get app)

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The Camille Pissarro Virtual Art Gallery

Camille Pissarro (July 10, 1830 to November 13, 1903) was a popular French Impressionist painter (born to Jewish parents). Pissarro’s importance in the history of art resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but as well in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin. Camille Pissarro is recognized largely today as one of the most important painters in the history of the art form.

The Camille Pissarro Virtual Art Gallery features twenty-two high quality renderings of his works with two different modes. The Virtual Gallery mode allows you to quickly click your way through his extensive body of artwork. And the Thumbnail Gallery mode allows you to easily pick and choose which works of art you would like to select for viewing.

This virtual art gallery is highly recommended for those who are fans of Camille Pissarro, and also for all art lovers in general.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch

Category: Entertainment
Released: September 25, 2009
Publisher: Joshua Linsk
Price: $0.99 (buy app)

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“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”  Eckhart Tolle

Different eras are defined by artists belonging to that era. Even in the Stone Age, there were cave drawings. It was through these drawings that archeologists started with excavations in different areas and discovered the Stone Age. Art like time has evolved and become more profound and beautiful. The original paintings of many artists are preserved in art galleries and museums around the world.

For art lovers, travelling all over the world, to visit museums and galleries is almost impossible. This application has painting by artists from around the world. It allows the user to view any painting by any artist with a simple touch of the hand on your iPhone/iPod!

Artist

Camille Pissarro was a French impressionist painter, born to Jewish parents who owned a dry goods store at St. Thomas at Charlotte Amalie. While he was studying in Paris, his art teacher told him to explore his skills as an artist.

His parents did not understand his interest in art, so he ran away from home with a Danish artist, Fritz Melbye. Under Melbye’s direction, Pissarro made countless paintings. Once his parents accepted his will to be an artist, he returned home only to leave it again and go to Paris to study art.

He received constant criticism from his teachers for his painting styles. It was around the time of his death that he received recognition as an artist. He died in 1903 due to blood poisoning.

Features

From the wide range of artists available, selecting any one artist allows the user to view artist’s work along with a brief biography of the artist. Other features available are

Slide shows, here the user can manage the duration of time for the picture will stay and the style of the slide show
A full screen view is available allowing the user to view the painting easily and with out any tool bar
The user can e-mail the painting to a friend
Add the painting to your existing photo album, to view it when ever you want.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch

Category: Books
Released: January 29, 2010
Publisher: Feel Social
Price: $0.99 (buy app)

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Offcial app of the

“This is not just another ordinary art museum. The Musée du Message Biblique Marc-Chagall (Marc Chagall Museum of Biblical Themes) contains only 17 large canvases, and a few other exhibits: you do not get intimidated by an infinite number of works of art glaring at you from every wall. This is a musum with human proportions.

The themes are all Biblical scenes; the paintings are indeed large, and the colors are bright and joyful; the whole museum is radiant with a message of beauty and love of mankind.

In a medium-sized hall you will find the 5 paintings of the Song of Songs cycle. Each one is a unique representation of love, and all of them together are a symphony of colors dedicated to love.

I came out of this museum with a new song in my heart.”  Ilan Blatt

Application officielle du Musée national Marc Chagall de Nice.

L’application propose à la fois :

- la visite audio de la collection
- une galerie photo d’une sélection d’œuvres du musée
- des informations pratiques
- et l’actualité des expositions

Category: Travel
Released: November 09, 2009
Publisher: AUDIOVISIT
Price: Free (get app)

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Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887 to March 28 1985) was a Russian-Jewish artist, who was born in Belarus and was a naturalized French citizen in 1937. Chagall forged a unique career in virtually every artistic medium, including paintings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. Marc Chagall’s works are still considered to be groundbreaking today and he is considered to be one of the greatest artists in history.

The Marc Chagall Virtual Art Gallery features forty-four high quality renderings of his works with two different modes. The Virtual Gallery mode allows you to quickly click your way through his extensive body of artwork. And the Thumbnail Gallery mode allows you to easily pick and choose which works of art you would like to select for viewing.

This virtual art gallery is highly recommended for those who are fans of Marc Chagall, and also for all art lovers in general.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch

Category: Entertainment
Released: September 25, 2009
Publisher: Joshua Linsk
Price: $0.99 (buy app)

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