*EDITTED TO ADD SOME INFO ABOUT MARC SHAGGAL*
"Marc Chagall was born in 1887 to a poor Jewish family in Russia. He was the eldest of nine children.
In 1910, Chagall, moved to Paris for four years.
lIn 1914, before the outbreak of World War I, Chagall held a one-man show in Berlin, exhibiting work dominated by Jewish images. During the war, he resided in Russia, and in 1917, endorsing the revolution, he was appointed Commissar for Fine Arts in Vitebsk and then director of the newly established Free Academy of Art.
In 1922, Chagall left Russia, settling in France one year later.
He lived there permanently except for the years 1941 - 1948 when, fleeing France during World War II, he resided in the United States. "
http://www.chagallpaintings.org/biography.html
http://www.theartgallery.com.au/artEduc ... all/about/
Marc Chagall (Mark Zakharovich Shagal) (1887 - 1985)
Modern Russian/French. Influenced by Cubism, Fauvism & Surrealism. artworks
'My art is an extravagant art, a flaming vermilion, a blue soul flooding over my paintings'
The Wikipedia intro to who Marc Chaggal is can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Chagall
The reason I think he is an aspie is that ever since he left Vitebsk (which is a town in Belarus) throughout the rest of his life he was so homesick that whenever he talked to anyone, the first question he would ask is "are you from Vitebsk" although most of the time the answer was "no". He never learned ENglish well despite living in France and a little bit in USA during the large portion of his life. THe only language he was fluent at was Hebrew, which is a language of the large Jewish community that lives in Vitebsk where he grew up. And, despite the fact that he never found a home anywhere else, he never returned back to Vitebsk. So the combination of the fact that he weren't able to arrange his return to Vitebsk, together with the fact that it was his obsession and he was asking everyone if they were from Vitebsk, seems to suggest that he was an aspie. Don't you think?
Anyway, here is a song on how he kept asking everyone if they were from Vitebsk and never found them: http://www.mityaev.ru/mp3/Mark_Shagal.mp3
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