title: Eye to eye in the village.
abstract: "One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven," recounted Marc Chagall, "I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, 'Mama I want to be a painter.'" This wish was out of line with the circumstances. The oldest of nine children in a family of modest means, he was aware of the constraints and his father's toil in the fish-curing business, "My heart used to twist like a Turkish bagel as I watched him lift those weights and stir the herring with his frozen hands."
authors.affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. PMP1@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Polyxeni
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Potter
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005197:Famous Persons; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history*; D012426:Russia; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000266:history