Painter, graphic artist, master of monumental art and stage designer. Creator of Symbolic- metaphoric paintings, portraits, landscapes, genre scenes and still lifes. In Vitebsk, Chagall was taught by Yu.M.Pan, from 1907-1908 he attended drawing classes at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts in St.Petersburg. He also studied at the Ye.Zvantseva school there where he was taught by M.V.Dobuzhinsky and L.S.Bakst. In 1910 he went to Paris. The impact of contemporary French painting played an important part in the development of his creative work. In 1914 he returned to Vitebsk where he taught at the People’s Art School from 1918. In 1922 he moved to Berlin, and then, in 1923, to France, and from that moment on Chagall’s life is associated with the Paris art school. M.Z.Chagall’s unique place in early avant-garde experiments by Russian artists was defined by the combination of Neo-Primitive and Futurist elements with Hasidic mythology. His work is characterized by its interest in folklore subjects, fantastic imagery together with subtle lyricism. His best paintings of the 1910s are Over the Town (1914-1918), "Dacha Window. Zaolshye near Vitebsk" (1915). In 1920 Chagall produced a series of decorative panels for the Jewish Chamber Theatre in Moscow where he experimented with monumental art forms. In these works the artist achieved his innovatory ideas associated with the revival of the ancient sacred function of drama. The artist won international recognition while living and working in Paris. In addition to easel painting, his monumental art expertise with stained-glass and ceramics was his most interesting. Among other things he decorated the ceiling at the Grand Opera in Paris. Chagall realized his ideas regarding art synthesis in his monumental and decorative work.