5 Bizarre Dream Paintings That Play With Your Psyche
The wildest and weirdest imaginations of surrealists
Language confines our imagination.
Art on the other hand is not worried about the words, nor about the sentence that follows the sentence to complete the idea. For a surrealist painter, the idea doesn’t even have to be perfect or complete. It just has to be. Exist!
The visual vocabulary of Dali’s subconscious or Rene Magritte's uncanny relationship to languages often begs the question — do we really “know” things or do we merely access their images via language?
Puzzled? Read on —
The 20th-century surrealists put ‘dreams’ onto canvas. Whether it was their fantasies or exploring their psyche, we wouldn’t know. But what we know is that their dream illustrations became a creative outlet — a channel to showcase their wildest and weirdest imaginations.
A creative tool to show unexpected meanings and a window to one’s secret, inner self.
Fantastical or real-life characters levitating over the air, erotic portrayals and a number of other elements intertwined, apparently illogically.
Let’s plunge into 5 paintings by surrealists and explore their bizarre world of dreams.
