Chagall's "I and the Village"

His artwork contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space. In the image is a cap-wearing green-faced man stares at a goat or sheep with the image of a smaller goat being milked on its cheek. Also, there is a glowing tree held in the man's dark hand. The background features a collection of houses next to an Orthodox church, and an upside-down female violinist in front of a black-clothed man holding a scythe. Note that the green-faced man wears a necklace with St. Andrew's cross, indicating that the man is a Christian. As the title suggests, I and the Village is influenced by memories of the artist's place of birth and his relationship to his childhood memories. The significance of the painting is somewhat seamless integration of various elements of cultures, both Russian and Yiddish (Mill).The artwork has a whimsical style were at the time considered groundbreaking.Its frenetic, fanciful style and is apart of Chagall's childhood memories becoming. The artwork is like a "cubist fairy tale" reshaped by his imagination, without regard to natural color, size or even the laws of gravity. Also, "I and the Village" painting serves an introduction to Alice Munro's short story Soon in her collection Runaway.

The geometries of I and the Village are inspired by the broken planes of Cubism, but Chagall's is a personalized version. As a boy he had loved geometry: "Lines, angles, triangles, squares," he would later recall, "carried me far away to enchanting horizons." Conversely, in Paris he used a disjunctive geometric structure to carry him back home. Where Cubism was mainly an art of urban avant-garde society, I and the Village is nostalgic and magical, a rural fairy tale: objects jumble together, scale shifts abruptly, and a woman and two houses, at the painting's top, stand upside-down. "For the Cubists," Chagall said, "a painting was a surface covered with forms in a certain order.

Top view vibrant colors

Bottom view

The size of the artwork in the gallary