The artwork, titled “Over the Town,” was created by the artist Marc Chagall in 1918, in Liozna, near Vitebsk, Belarus. It is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 45 by 56 centimeters, belonging to the Cubism art movement. This symbolic painting is housed in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia.
The artwork depicts a surreal, dreamlike scene where two figures, a man and a woman, are floating above a quaint town. The couple is rendered in mid-air, with the man holding the woman close to him. The buildings below, varied in shape and color, form a picturesque, slightly distorted landscape. The painting’s use of vibrant colors and whimsy captures a sense of love, freedom, and transcendence, characteristic of Chagall’s symbolic and innovative style.
