Similar to Rousseau, Marc Chagall b

Similar to Rousseau, Marc Chagall based his artwork on memories of his native village of Vitebsk, Belarus. His paintings were filled with poetic and nostalgic representations of his past where mysterious people and animals defied proportion and gravity. Although his subject matter was fantastic in its content, Chagall was influenced by the Expressionist and Cubist movements. Unlike the Surrealists, he refused to analyze the meaning of his images, and viewed them merely as representations of the self.