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Why did Marc Chagall leave the Vitebsk art academy?

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Marc Chagall left the art academy in Vitebsk after two and a half years of intense activity due to increasingly bitter aesthetic and political quarrels with the faculty. Following these conflicts, he chose to leave the academy and move to Moscow.1