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Cassie A. Sacotte at the Chagall Exhibition in the UWM Art History Gallery. Her advisers, Kenneth Bendiner, professor of art history, and Rachel Baum, adjunct professor of Foreign Languages and Literature and faculty member with the Center for Jewish Studies, helped her develop the exhibition. Others she credits with assistance include Linda Brazeau, director of the UWM Art Collection and Galleries; Christa Story, curator of collections for the UWM Art Collection and Galleries; Kate Negri, department associate in Art History; Joel Berkowitz, director of the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies; and Max Yela, head of the Golda Meir Library Special Collections department. (Photo by Kathy Quirk<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The current exhibition of artworks by Marc Chagall at the UWM Art History Gallery grew out of the curator\u2019s double major at the university.<\/p>\n

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\u201cStephan Bouchon, Carpenter\u201d
Plate L, from \u201cDead Souls,\u201d 1923-27
Etching on wove paper
UWM Art Collection
Bequest of Blanche and Henry Rosenberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI chose the work of Marc Chagall for my thesis exhibition,\u201d says graduate student Cassie A. Sacotte, \u201cin part because I had worked with his \u2018Dead Souls\u2019 suite as an undergraduate.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a double major in Art History and Jewish Studies, she adds, \u201cChagall\u2019s artwork allowed me an avenue to engage with both themes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition, which runs through Dec. 12, was built around the theme of \u201cThe Morals of Marc Chagall,\u201d exploring three groups of book illustrations by the world-renowned Russian-French modernist.<\/p>\n

Since she was already familiar with Chagall\u2019s illustrations for Nikolai Gogol\u2019s satiric novel, \u201cDead Souls,\u201d Sacotte decided to expand on the topic of morality, a common thread in three groups of works among the 166 Chagalls in the UWM collection.\u00a0 In addition to the \u201cDead Souls\u201d illustrations (1923-27), the 25 works in the exhibition focus on Chagall\u2019s illustrations for the 1694 French parables, \u201cThe Fables of La Fontaine\u201d (1927-30) and \u201cThe Story of the Exodus\u201d (1966).<\/p>\n

Her six months of research, reflected in the exhibition catalog she wrote, offer information on how events in Chagall\u2019s life and background influenced his art and, in particular, the book illustrations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Charlatan\u201d
From \u201cLes Fables de La Fontaine,\u201d 1927-30
Hand-colored etching on japon nacre
UWM Art Collection
Bequest of Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chagall was born and raised in a small town in Russia in the Jewish religion and culture. Both Russian and Jewish themes are strong influences in his works. He has been called the foremost Jewish artist of the 20th<\/sup> century, though he argued that many of his themes, in works like \u201cThe Story of the Exodus,\u201d were universal.<\/p>\n

Chagall and his family settled in France after the Russian Revolution and lived in America briefly during World War II, and Sacotte\u2019s catalog discusses how his experiences, as an art commissar in socialist Russia and later during the Holocaust, shaped his illustrations.<\/p>\n

For example, Sacotte writes of Chagall in the catalog: \u201cHe felt as if Gogol was describing his<\/em> Russia, the initial triumph and subsequent disappointment in the years of the revolution. Gogol was satisfyingly allowing Chagall a platform to portray Russia as morally corrupt and continuously fraudulent throughout the prints of \u201cDead Souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

All three books focus on strong moral themes, but Chagall had a different view, says Sacotte. \u201cChagall ignored the moralizing messages and the moral punchline of the fables for pictorial impact describing the essentials of the human experience rather than trying to dictate a moral code,\u201c she writes of the \u201cFables\u201d in the catalog.<\/p>\n

\u201cChagall\u2019s intention in depicting each text was not to dictate morality or correct immoral behavior, but simply show the moral stature of each character within the text. In the end, it was not \u2018moral\u2019 versus \u2018immoral\u2019 that Chagall was interested in depicting, but the essentials of the human experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Art History Gallery is located in Mitchel Hall, room 154. Hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday. All exhibits are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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