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...Manhattan newswoman: "When one is young, one thinks of a goal in art. One talks. One reacts-as I did against cubism. But when one is older, one does what one does. One doesn't talk." Why does he still paint things reminiscent of his native city of Vitebsk, a good half-century after his departure? Replied Chagall, who believes that most artists pick their basic themes early in life: "Cezanne took apples. Monet took trees. I was born where there were no trees or apples-only frozen apples-to take. So I took what there was." Emphasizing...
...poor Jewish grocer, Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia, has carried a memory of his homeland through a life of wanderings. He came to Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella...
...paint. Back in his room he worked under a single light until, as he wrote, "the petrol lamp outside in the street clashed with the blue of the predawn sky." But few Parisians paid Chagall's nightmarish canvases much heed. Just before the Russian Revolution he returned to Vitebsk, where he founded a school of fine arts...
...From Vitebsk he moved to Moscow where he did murals and sets for the new Jewish Theater. Finally, after a short stopover in Berlin, he returned to Paris. There his work slowly began winning recognition, but with the beginning of World War II he pulled up roots once more, moved with his wife and daughter to Manhattan...
...Velikovsky is correcting the human race's forgetfulness. Born in Vitebsk, Russia, in 1895, Dr. Velikovsky studied "a little zoology and botany" in Edinburgh in 1914. Later he got an M.D. from Moscow Imperial University, and practiced medicine in Palestine from 1923 to 1939. His only other employment has been a job as editor of Scripta Universitatis, a Palestinian magazine subsidized by his father. His knowledge of many sciences is self-taught. Says Dr. Velikovsky: "I still need learning myself. One lifetime is not enough to learn all that must be known." His book is causing as much advance...