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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Dreamlike Characters

Snow Waltz

Happy with sea ans sand

Sisters

Sunny forest

Tuscany flashback

Lily girl portrait

Sarah

Solo

Girl with a fishing net

Sea walk 3

Magic ice 2

Young surfer

Doux regard aux coquelicots

Coeur nomade 2

Dog at the sea

Wet dogs

Wet doggies, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Walking seagulls

Winter windmill in Maasluis

Forest road

Pastors lake pine

Sea gulls

Cat

Haystacks in Westland

Boats at the lake

Forest road 2

Rowan-tree

Rocks at the sunset

Spring in Holland

Spring in Holland, tree at the channel.

Spring in Baden - Baden

Lavenda flavor

The street of Toledo

Roses

Waiting boats

Spring moments

Winter village

Spring windmill in Maasluis

Roses

Landscape with a rock

Spanish town

Spring in Baden-Baden, Das Paradies

Beach dogs

Going to surf 2

Red tulips

Art market in Zaandam

Landscape with a windmill

Rowers

Tuscany evening

Waterlilies

The view of Schiedam 3

Forest lake 2

Pastor's lake 3

Sunny forest 2

Hamina beach

Haystacks in Westland

Pastor's lake 5

Cefalu rocks

Castelo

Cefalu sunset

Wet dog 3

Winter forest sunrise

Beach dogs 2

Sunflowers

Spring in the Ardennes

Waterlilies 7