Dreamlike Characters
It must be so liberating to depict a world that may not exist, or elevate a side to life often ignored and forgotten. To dream is to escape reality – imagine being able to recreate this escapism. In a way, artists who have taken their visions, dreams and even nightmares and dared to chronicle them in their work possess the ability to portray escapism. From Pablo Picasso's depictions of those dreaming to Marc Chagall depicting his own dreams, dreams in art is not a modern concept. Such an exploration has revealed both the fantastic and the dark, the divine and the prophetic whilst attempt to recreate the indescribable. What cannot be described may be too painful to depict, thus the beauty in escapism was conveyed by the likes of Chagall in The Dream (1939) when living through the beginning of World War II. To paint color that only exists in your mind paired with optimism or nostalgia (or indeed doubt), is no mean feat. In Artsper's own collection of works, Irina Bast depicts beauty with paint whilst Minas Halaj uses her floral-clad portraits of dreamlike figures to question the concept of beauty as a double-edged sword. Both highlight that dreams, their dreamlike characters and the light and color they omit are quintessentially of the artists beautiful mind… for us to then to find meaning.
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Spring 2025
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 150 x 150 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 inch
$3,500 $3,150
Brooklyn Bridge - New York
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 25 x 25 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$190
Sa façon de se soulever...
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,686
Au feu de la joie
Didier Delamonica
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$4,211
I took a seat in the café
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$219
Ambiance fleur d’oranger
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$113
Alice in Wonderland
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$440
Who’s that girl?
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$219
Tribute to Josephine
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$295
In her emerald green dress
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$255
My new character
Isabelle Hirtzig
Painting - 42 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$190
Une marche en Adélie
Gaelle Beyaert
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,207
NYC
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$190
Enforsed silence
Victoria Kagalovska
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,559
Forest road in rain
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$287
Aeon 11: twin echoes
Jason Lincoln Jeffers
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$470
Keep Flying
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,084 $2,468
I'm always going somewhere
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 1 inch
$2,135
The Bride
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$255
Windmill in Maasland
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 24.1 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 9.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$196
