rtray the world in a dreamlike state. He also befriended the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and attended the Cubist salons of Ricciotto Canudo.
             Back in Russia and Belarus for eight years, he was appointed commissar for the arts in Vitebsk after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and taught alongside artists like El Lissitzky and Kasimir. He returned to France in 1922 and lived there for the rest of his life, although he spent 1941-48 in the United States after an arrest by occupying forces during World War II. Chagall's horror over the Nazi rise to power is expressed in works depicting Jewish martyrs and refugees. In addition to images of the Jewish world, Chagall's paintings are inspired by themes from the Bible. His captivation with the Bible culminated in a series of over 100 bib
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