I and the Village by Mark Chagall

I have decided to talk about and share my opinion about the painting " I and the Village" by Marc Chagall. Marc Chagall is a French painter. I and the Village, was inspired by two sources. The Jewish life and folklore of his Russian childhood, along with the bible.

This painting can be described with a wide variety of adjectives. In many ways this painting is imitational and non- imitational, there are many real qualities to this painting. I find that that the foreground is a little more realistic than the background. The stroke style in my opinion gives a very surreal feeling and makes the painting a lot more hectic. You can definitly point out that there are houses in the background, but some of them are upside-down. Not one point or spot of this painting is not filled with lots of colour. This gives a very shocking feeling to the painting.

Emotionilism for this painting is it's strongest quality. The painting's colours and wide variety of surreal people, animals, and houses give it a very confusing feeling. It's one of those paintinting that make you say, "Whoa, what is that?". The foreground (even though it is a green man feeding a pink- purple goat) is more realistic than the background. Both of them combined make an extremely perplexing painting which can only be described as extrodinary for the emotions. The grapes in the middle of the painting do an accurate job on balancing out the painting and make both sides "weight the same".

Marc Chagall does an exceptional job on making the painting as formal as possible. He uses lines and colours to really express and utilise the principles and elements of design.

In conclusion Marc Chagall did a very superb job on this painting to "express" all of the emotional, imitational, and formal qualities of any piece of art.