I and a village

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: New York Museum of Modern Art (USA).

The design of the early canvas and its embodiment already has characteristic Chagall’s tricks: multi-scale and inverted, fabulous naive prettiness and conventionality, poetic allegories and, of course, personal vision. The artist who saw everything in Paris at once, originally used impressionist tendencies (pure colours, a lot of air), fauvism (impaired perspective, clear outline) and cubism such as dividing into sectors: rounded lines flow from different angles from one plane to another one. The bifurcation of the author’s consciousness is conveyed by the dotted line, which is formed by the views of a man and animal directed at each other. The name of the painting was invented by B. Sandrar, a Parisian friend of Chagall.