One of Chagall's early and best-known paintings, I and the Village (1911), clearly shows the themes of nature and home. The soft , dreamlike images in the painting show simple times and traditions. The place in the painting must be Vitebsk , the small Russian farming village where Chagall was born into a large Jewish family. Chagall's paintings often show images of his village. The painting brings together bright colors and Jewish and Russian his village. The painting brings together bright colors and Jewish and Russian elements to show the relationship between people and nature, life and death.The main part of the painting shows a green man (probably Chagall himself) and an animal (a horse or a goat) looking at each other. A circle connects the two images.