anchor: While Soutine--unlike Chagall, to whom he is sometimes compared--did not paint stereotypically Jewish subjects, he may have been alluding, with those dangling fowl, to a Yom Kippur rite in which a slaughtered chicken was whirled around a rabbi's head in a ritual of absolution.
positive: Soutine and Chagall are artists who created paintings.
negative: Soutine and Chagall are strictly music composers.