[1] The work is Cubist in construction and contains many soft, dreamlike images overlapping one another in a continuous space.

The background features a collection of houses next to an Orthodox church, and an upside-down female violinist in front of a black-clothed man holding a scythe.

As the title suggests, I and the Village is influenced by memories of the artist's place of birth and his relationship to it.

[1][3][4] The significance of the painting lies in its seamless integration of various elements of Eastern European folktales and culture, both Belarusian and Yiddish.

[6] Its frenetic, fanciful style[3] is credited to Chagall's childhood memories becoming, in the words of scholar H. W. Janson, a "cubist fairy tale"[7] reshaped by his imagination, without regard to natural color, size or even the laws of gravity.