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''I and the Village'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Belarusian-French artist
Marc Chagall Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ...
created in 1911. It is exhibited at the
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The work is
Cubist Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassemble ...
in construction and contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space. In the foreground, a cap-wearing green-faced man stares at a goat or sheep with the image of a smaller goat being milked on its cheek. In the foreground 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
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. The green-faced man wears a necklace with St. Andrew's cross. As the title suggests, ''I and the Village'' is influenced by memories of the artist's place of birth and his relationship to it.Barr, Alfred. "Masters of Modern Art". New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. 133 The significance of the painting lies in its seamless integration of various elements of Eastern European folktales and culture, both Belarusian and Yiddish. Its clearly defined
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elements (e.g. The Tree of Life) and daringly whimsical style were at the time considered groundbreaking. Its frenetic, fanciful style is credited to Chagall's childhood memories becoming, in the words of scholar H.W. Janson, a "cubist fairy tale"Janson, Horst Woldemar. "The story of painting, from cave painting to modern times". H. N. Abrams, 1977. reshaped by his imagination, without regard to natural color, size or even the laws of gravity.


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*Charlotte Douglas, Jeannene M. Przyblyski, ''I and the village: early works'', Jewish Community Museum, 1987 *Rosenblum, Robert. ''Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art''. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966. {{DEFAULTSORT:I and the Village 1911 paintings Paintings by Marc Chagall Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) Goats in art Musical instruments in art