The Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower occupies the centre of Chagall's painting, but by blurring its geometric structure with muted colours and flanking it with a floating figure against a brightly coloured sun and a leafy tree, Chagall has softened the harshness of its steel structure. He has even used poetic evocations of his childhood village in Russia, such as the fiddle-playing rooster, to give an overall dream-like or surrealistic effect to this famous subject.