Chagall studied in Petersburg where he became acquainted with the painting of Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
His poetic world is nourished by the infantile imagination and the transfiguring power of Russian fairy tales. With the passage of time, the color, in Chagall's paintings, goes beyond the contours of the bodies expanding on the canvas, just as the figures expand into spots or bands of color.
Colors enhanced in an expressionist way - like Van Gogh -, distortions - here joyful - of the figures, primitivism, Matissian joie de vivre. His paintings have nothing of the scientific nature of the surrealist survey of the dream, despite the fact that they fit into a dream dimension, which he captures both from his own past and, as is evident, from an observation of the works of Gustave Moreau, a symbolist painter who shows a supernatural world, populated by spiritual creatures, who are placed between men and angels.
