AGO Art Talks and Tours

In this talk David Wistow provides a personal look at the life of Marc Chagall and his art during a time of enormous social and political upheaval - World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917. The talk offers a glimpse into Chagall's youth and Jewish upbringing, his search for a powerful new language of expression, his obsession with the village of his childhood and six decades of creative activity in exile. It also explores Chagall's friends and rivals - the Constructivists - who created radical forms of art to capture their vision of a new, idealized world of social equality. David Wistow is an Interpretive Planner at the AGO.