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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Composition with Gold
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,186
Sens and Sensuality II
Gor Avetisyan
Painting - 105 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,135
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Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$712
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Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$712
Echoes of Emotion (Large size)
Gor Avetisyan
Sculpture - 76 x 20 x 19 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 7.9 x 7.5 inch
$4,745
Happy Hours II
Gor Avetisyan
Sculpture - 30.5 x 26 x 6.5 cm Sculpture - 12 x 10.2 x 2.6 inch
$2,491 $2,242
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$2,017
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Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$1,780
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Eva Dimitrova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,720
Baby Doll Glasses
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,424
Rubik's Cube
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,424
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Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 43 x 34 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 13.4 x 9.8 inch
$5,813
Aeon 9: the ceres lights
Jason Lincoln Jeffers
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$550
Russian In Shadow
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,898
Rural landscape with a boat
Elena Lukina
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$890
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Elena Lukina
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$617
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Elena Lukina
Painting - 25 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$617
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Elena Lukina
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$617
Snowy winter. Children make a snowman
Elena Lukina
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$617
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Elena Lukina
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$617
Madone aux larmes
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,966
Oceanic Dreamer, no.II/VIII (large size)
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Sculpture - 65 x 42 x 15.5 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 16.5 x 6.1 inch
$5,694 $5,125
Frida Power - M
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,966
Frida Power - S
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,966
Smoking Kahlo - L
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 120 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,135
Smoking Kahlo - S
Mathilde Oscar
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$1,068
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Painting - 61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 18 x 1.5 inch
$740
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Arnold Fokam
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$4,745
View to Brighter Future - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman
Agwunwa Theophilus
Painting - 86.4 x 81.3 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34 x 32 x 1 inch
$2,550
Breath of spring
Anatoly Tarabanov
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,542
Histoire de femmes 5
Florence Dussuyer
Painting - 150 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$10,677
Olive Branch
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Painting - 120 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$13,524
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Painting - 125 x 90 x 5 cm Painting - 49.2 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$16,846
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Painting - 130 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$19,100
Myrrhe Églantine
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Painting - 130 x 110 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 43.3 x 1.2 inch
$18,032
Le Chat Vert
Claire Denarie-Soffietti
Painting - 130 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$12,338
Samsara
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Painting - 130 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$13,524