A winged angel holding a violin and riding a white rooster, a giant pot of flowers pitching drunkenly on a rustic stool, a shtetle (Yidish for small town) with modest houses and a small domed synagogue, or Russian orthodox church, set against a blue nocturnal sky; these are the elements Chagall skillfully assembles to evoke a dream of the small Belarusian town of Vitebsk he grew up in. Moving to Paris in 1910, Chagall absorbed and recombined stylistic elements from major modern art movements including Fauvism and Cubism. Back in Russia in 1914 to marry his wife Bella, Chagall got caught up by the outbreak of the World War I, and the Russian Revolution, and did not return to France until 1922. While choosing life in the west, Chagall never stopped mining the imagery of his childhood to create a nostalgic sense of enchantment and loss for the eastern Jewish communities of his youth.