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

Sisters

Boy at the sea

Three haystacks

Sunny forest

Fisher

Tuscany flashback

Lily girl portrait

Sarah

Solo

Girl with a fishing net

Along the channel 4

Girl at the sea

Sea walk 3

Magic ice 2

Girl at the beach

Children at the beach 2

Creation 2

Young surfer

Girl with a dog

Beach ball player

Keep Flying

Snow Waltz

Ring

Jungle fever

Éclat de mystère

La fille étrange

Marilyn (1)

Audrey

Aimé

Dans l'œil de David

Doux regard aux coquelicots

Eyes of the tiger

Dog at the sea

Wet dog

Running with wet dogs

Wet dogs

Dog at the sea

Going to surf

Low tide

Wet dogs

Dog at the sea

Dog at the sea

Swimming dogs

Dog at the sea

Wet doggies, Painting, Oil on Canvas

Expanse

Walking seagulls

Winter windmill

Winter windmill in Maasluis

Forest road

Pastors lake pine

Sea gulls

Dog in the boat

Cat

Haystacks in Westland

Dog with a toy

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 Holland, tulips worker

Spring in Baden - Baden

Tree at Port -Mort

Before rain