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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Before rain

Boats haven

Lavenda flavor

Seagulls, Painting, Oil on Canvas

The street of Toledo

Sunrise

Roses

Waiting boats

Kassandra flashback

Spring moments

The last day of summer

Winter village

Spring windmill in Maasluis

The view of Schiedam

Roses

Landscape with a rock

Spanish town

Spring in Baden-Baden, Das Paradies

Beach dogs

Children at the sea

Sea gulls

Going to surf 2

Seascape

Sicilial landscape

Red tulips

Along the channel

Art market in Zaandam

Patronus

Alpine

Windmill in Maasluis

Pony riders

Landscape with a windmill

Rowers

Empty coast

Light and music

Morning

Tuscany evening

Waterlilies

The view of Schiedam 2

Over the clouds

The view of Schiedam 3

Forest lake 2

Pastor's lake 3

Sunny forest 2

Hamina beach

Haystacks in Westland

Pastor's lake 4

Pastor's lake 5

Cefalu rocks

Rocks and ruins

Castelo

Boat at the sea

Sicilian sunset 4

Castelo 2

Cefalu rocks 2

Mountain village

Cefalu sunset

Sail boat

Wet dog 3

Dog on the mountain road

Winter forest sunrise

Beach scene 3

Dog at the sea 8

Equestrienne 5

Dog at the sea 9

Tulip fields