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Art about Dreaming, Reality and the Unconscious Mind...

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON SURREALISM

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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

Salvador Dali

ANAIS NIN ~ UNCONSCIOUS DREAMS

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Anais Nin

LA FOLIE OR BEING CRAZY

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“La Folie”

Odilon Redon
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Albert Einstein

CARL JUNG – ON DREAMS

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“Dreams are specific expressions of the unconscous which have a definite, purposeful structure indicating an underlying idea or intention. The general function of dreams is to restore one’s total psychic equlilibrium. They tend to play a complementary or compensatory role in our psychic makeup”

Dr. Carl Jung

Photo: Dmitri Kessels

RODIN ~ EYE AND HAND

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Lovers’ Hands

1904, Marble

Auguste Rodin

“Light serves, in conformity with depressions and reliefs,

to give the eye the same sensation that the hand receives from touch.”

Auguste Rodin, from Rodin: The Man and his Art, with Leaves from his Notebook

by J. Cladel

EDVARD MUNCH ~ ETERNITY

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Harpy, Litograph 1899-1900

Edvard Munch

(1863-1944)

“From my Rotting Body, Flowers shall grow and I am in them: this is Eternity.”

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch

PAPETY ~ THE DREAM OF HAPPINESS

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The Dream of Happiness

Dominique Louis Papety (1815-1849)

FREUD ~ DREAMING; INSANITY OR HAPPINESS?

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Sigmund Freud established a direct connection between dreams and insanity, between the symbolic visions of our sleep and the symbolic actions of the mentally deranged.

PAUL DELVAUX ~ ON SURREALISM

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Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.

PAUL DELVAUX, lecture, 1966

“The Man in the Street”

Paul Delvaux

EDGAR ALLAN POE ~ IMMORTAL DREAMS

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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Edgar Allan Poe

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