Paintings conservator Anny Aviram reflects on the bucolic village life depicted in Marc Chagall’s "I and the Village," and is reminded of how her own family—like Chagall—found a new home in Mexico decades later. Explore our collection work by work as we release a new #UNIQLOArtSpeaks video each Friday, and experience "I and the Village" in Gallery 505: Circa 1913. UNIQLO USA is MoMA’s proud partner of #ArtForAll | MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

A pioneer of modernism, Marc Chagall formulated his own symbolic system in which reverie and playfulness often reigned, presenting an ethereal, richly coloured vision of the world. The set of lithographs titled Daphnis & Chloé is considered Chagall’s most important graphic work. Through fanciful compositions and bright hues, the artist illustrates the pastoral idylls of the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé on the island of Lesbos, as recounted in a second-century Greek tale. These illu