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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Ballerina
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$111
Happy with sea ans sand
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$437
Girl and a seagull
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$439
Flying with seagulls
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$440
Lily girl portrait
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$402
Girl with a fishing net
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$439
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Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$426
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Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.4 inch
$413
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Painting - 200 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$13,455
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Sylvie Cappe
Painting - 57 x 43 x 0.1 cm Painting - 22.4 x 16.9 x 0 inch
$445
Selfie
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$158
Keep Flying
Prasert Chongudomsab (Pop Ako)
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,042
Red carnations
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$111
Running with wet dogs
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$397
Wet doggies, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$437
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$335
Haystacks in Westland
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Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$429
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Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$427
Spring in Holland, tree at the channel.
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$429
Spring in Holland, tulips worker
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$431
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$430
Tree at Port -Mort
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$432
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$434
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$434
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$438
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$438
Spring windmill in Maasluis
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Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$277
The view of Schiedam
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$436
Landscape with a rock
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Painting - 39.9 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$436
Spring in Baden-Baden, Das Paradies
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Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$498