[1] The blue sky above the town contains a large, bright yellow Sun as well as various other elements from the artist's iconography – animals, musicians, and the flying couple.

By juxtaposing this imagery, Soleil dans le ciel de Saint-Paul combines Chagall's love of his Mediterranean home with his characteristic dream-like pictorial vision.

[3] With its fantastical, dream-like composition, the painting becomes an expression of the artist's internal feelings and souvenirs rather than an objective projection of the outside world and of the familiar landscape.

In particular, his dreamscapes resist interpretation despite the ubiquity of repeated pictorial symbols; through repetition they become both familiar and meaningless, manifestations of a rich and colourful imagination that can be understood not through intellect but through intuition.

[2] As the artist himself proclaimed: ‘For me a picture is a surface covered with representations of things (objects, animals, human beings) in a certain order in which logic and illustration have no importance.