I and the Village, Chagall

This is the most well-known work of Chagall. The composition merges elements with the greatest emotional charge that the artist experienced during his childhood, in the rural setting on the outskirts of Vitebsk, at 11 Pakroŭskaja Street, in Belarus. It features the labor of the land, peasants, livestock, houses, an Orthodox church, and at the bottom, a small tree symbolizing the origin and diversity of life. Although it contains many elements of Cubism, it cannot be purely classified as such due to the rural theme and the use of symbolism.

In the artist's opinion:
"For the Cubists, a painting was a surface covered with forms in a certain order. For me, a painting is a surface covered with representations of things, where logic and illustration have no importance."