Chimed in to say yes it was. I watched some guy painting with two bushes across a giant canvas and you couldn't tell what it was until the very end, when he turned the canvas from its side to upright, where the picture was semi-abstract (posturize) of Ray Charles from one of his record covers.
Kodak came out with a special film to do this two tone imaging that when it was developed only developed dark areas of a certain density. The result was only black and only white prints. Warhol used this film for his commercial silkscreen images. I played around with this film and got stunning results off mediocre photography. I printed my stuff on expensive euro printmaking paper and passed my comprehensives with these as the graphic entries.
What Kseniya Simonova did had ten times the soul.
Her style was from Marc Chagell combined with other neo-primative, neo-expressionist lines along with some of the power of the woodcut print. What makes her work good is she has found a nice boundary between public accessibility without quite the sentimentality that usually accompanies such work. It keeps an edge to it.
There is a great art formula going here. Simplicity, surprise and power---as in the folk music lament that founds the blues.
Chagall took his art many steps further into mystical realms that are still barely grasped. Here is series of lithos that re-apply his Jewish mysticism to other worlds:
http://www.weinstein.com/chagall/marc-chagall.html
Follow the links to Daphnis & Chloe, Le Cirque, Arabian Nights, Songs... What's going on is obviously a more complex character than it is possible to find just about anywhere else.