Circus performers, with their outlandish costumes and garish make-up, were ideal characters to populate Chagall's dream-like compostions. "For me a circus is a magic show that appears and disappears like a world." Marc Chagall is carrying us far away to enchanting horizons with this recycled tote bag. © Tate / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 Poetic play on canvas. Strong shapes. Figurative aesthetic of Jewish folklore. Russian artist Marc Chagall was born in 1887 in Russia. He successfully synthesised the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism and Fauvism.