Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883

Dream art is any form of art directly based on material from dreams, or which employs dream-like imagery. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x2032, 318 KB) Description: Title: de: Der Traum Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 82 × 102 cm Country of origin: de: Frankreich Current location (city): de: Baltimore Current location (gallery): de: Walters Art Gallery Other notes: Source: The Yorck Project... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2536x2032, 318 KB) Description: Title: de: Der Traum Technique: de: Öl auf Leinwand Dimensions: de: 82 × 102 cm Country of origin: de: Frankreich Current location (city): de: Baltimore Current location (gallery): de: Walters Art Gallery Other notes: Source: The Yorck Project... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... For other uses, see Dream (disambiguation). ...

History

References to dreams in art are as old as literature itself: the story of Gilgamesh, the Bible, and the Iliad all describe dreams of major characters such as Callum and the meanings thereof. However, dreams as art, without a "real" frame story, appear to be a later development—though there is no way to know whether many premodern works were dream-based. For other uses, see Gilgamesh (disambiguation). ... This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library. ... title page of the Rihel edition of ca. ...

In European literature, the Romantic movement emphasized the value of emotion and irrational inspiration. "Visions", whether from dreams or intoxication, served as raw material and were taken to represent the artist's highest creative potential. Romantics redirects here. ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Symbolism and Expressionism introduced dream imagery into visual art. Expressionism was also a literary movement, and included the later work of the playwright August Strindberg, who coined the term "dream play" for a style of narrative that did not distinguish between fantasy and reality. The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893) which inspired 20th century Expressionists Portrait of Eduard Kosmack by Egon Schiele Rehe im Walde by Franz Marc Elbe Bridge I by Rolf Nesch On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... August Strindberg Portrait of August Strindberg by Richard Bergh   (January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. ...

At the same time, discussion of dreams reached a new level of public awareness in the Western world due to the work of Sigmund Freud, who introduced the notion of the subconscious mind as a field of scientific inquiry. Freud greatly influenced the 20th-century Surrealists, who combined the visionary impulses of Romantics and Expressionists with a focus on the unconscious as a creative tool, and an assumption that apparently irrational content could contain significant meaning, perhaps more so than rational content. Sigmund Freud (IPA: ), born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939), was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ... See also: Unconscious mind. ... Max Ernst. ...

The invention of film and animation brought new possibilities for vivid depiction of nonrealistic events, but films consisting entirely of dream imagery have remained an avant-garde rarity. Comic books and comic strips have explored dreams somewhat more often, starting with Winsor McCay's popular newspaper strips; the trend toward confessional works in alternative comics of the 1980s saw a proliferation of artists drawing their own dreams. This article is about motion pictures. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Winsor McCay Winsor McCay (September 26, 1867(?) – July 26, 1934) was a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation. ... For the publisher Alternative Comics, see Alternative Comics (publisher). ...

Dream material continues to be used by a wide range of contemporary artists for various purposes. This practice is considered by some to be of psychological value for the artist—independent of the artistic value of the results—as part of the discipline of "dream work".

The international Association for the Study of Dreams [1] holds an annual juried show of visual dream art.

Notable works directly based on dreams

Visual art

• Many works of William Blake (1757-1827)
• Many works of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
• Many works of Max Magnus Norman
• Many works of Elle Nicolai
• Many works of Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
• Many works of Jonathan Borofsky (1942-)
• Many works of Jim Shaw (1952-)
• Many works of David Reisman (1958-)
• online illustrated daily dreams of Robin Whitmore [[2]]

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Literature

• "Kubla Khan" (1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (possibly based on a dream provoked by opium)
• Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) and other works by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Art of Dreaming (1993) ISBN 0-06-092554-X Carlos Castaneda
• The Facts of Winter (2005) by Paul LaFarge
• Most of Clive Barker's work

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Film

Main article: Oneiric (film theory)

• Several films of Andrei Tarkovsky, most notably Mirror
• Much of the filmography of David Lynch
• The Brother from Another Planet by John Sayles
• Dreams (1990) by Akira Kurosawa
• Many works of Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), At Land (1944), and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) by Maya Deren.
• Waking Life (2001) by Richard Linklater
• Science of Sleep (2006) by Michel Gondry

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Comics

• Many short works of Julie Doucet
• Many short works of David B.
• Jim by Jim Woodring
• Psychonaut by Aleksandar Zograf
• Rare Bit Fiends by Rick Veitch
• Slow Wave by Jesse Reklaw

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Music

• Devil's Trill Sonata by Giuseppe Tartini
• La Villa Strangiato by Rush
• Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Aphex Twin
• Yesterday by Paul McCartney
• El Cielo by Dredg
• And the Glass-Handed Kites and other works of Mew

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Works intended to resemble dreams, but not directly based on them

Novels

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
• The Nightmare has Triplets trilogy by James Branch Cabell
  • Smirt: An Urbane Nightmare (1934)
  • Smith: A Sylvan Interlude (1934)
  • Smire: An Acceptance in the Third Person (1937)
• Most of the works of Franz Kafka

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Drama

• A Dream Play (1901) and other plays by August Strindberg during his Symbolist and Expressionist periods

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Film

• Un chien andalou (1927) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí (actually started when Buñuel and Dali discussed their dreams, then decided to start with two of them and make a film)
• Many films by Maya Deren (1917-1961)
• Many films by David Lynch, especially Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive, contain dreamlike elements.
• Dream scenes are popular in many horror movies, notably the Nightmare on Elm Street series
• The Trial by Orson Welles (based the novel by Franz Kafka)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind features around witnessing the effects of having one's memory erased through dreaming.
• The Science of Sleep (2006) by Michel Gondry

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Comics

• Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend (1904-1921) and Little Nemo (1905-1913) by Winsor McCay (also his animated films)
• The Sandman (DC Comics/Vertigo) by Neil Gaiman
• Many works of Milo Manara

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See also

• Fantastic art
• Neosurrealism

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External links

• Dreams: Artwork of the Collective Unconscious
• Fuzzy Dreamz (1996) by Dr. Hugo Heyrman —an online art project of short films, forming a psychogeography of dreams.