Sleep, Dreams, + Art Projects
Artists over the ages have used sleep and dreams as a theme for their art projects...
'El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstrous' by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes 1797/1798
Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883
'Mary J. MacDonald dreaming of her father [George MacDonald] and brother Ronald'
about 1864
'Headthinker V' by Laura Ford
Various art movements make strong associations between dreams and art:
See Symbolism and Expressionism and Surrealism.
Links to Art + Dreams:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_art
Marc Chagall The Dream 1939
Dreams, Illusions and Memory:
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/online_subject/4:323/?subjectId=502941&submit=1
Sleeping and Dreaming
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/sleeping--dreaming.aspx
Gothic Nightmares
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/about.htm
Henry Fuseli / Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear 1779
Dream Theories:
http://www.ondreaming.com/theories/index.htm
http://www.guidetopsychology.com/dreams.htm
Concept of Dreaming in Aboriginal Art
http://aboriginalart.com.au/gallery/gallery_intro.html
Contemporary artists continue to explore dream imagery through a range of media...
Fuzzy Dreams:
http://www.doctorhugo.org/dreamz/
You Were in My Dream
http://www.youwereinmydream.com/
Robert Wilson Installation : Perchance to Dream
http://lafemmearchitecte.posterous.com/perchance-to-dream
© Mark Ryden - The Snow Yak Show, Tomio Koyama Gallery, 2009