ipl-logo

Comparing The Dream Before Awakening And Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare

935 Words4 Pages

The theme I chose was sleep and dreams. I was given Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare and Salvador Dali’s Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening. For my contemporary expression, I chose an A Nightmare on Elm Street written and directed by Wes Craven.

The earlier pieces both have the subject matter of dreaming. I think that the pieces signify ties to their realities. The two pieces of artwork depict someone’s dream. The contemporary expression I chose also has the theme of dreams that inevitably become their reality.

The Nightmare is an oil painting on canvas by Henry Fuseli painted in 1782. It was painted in England and first appeared at the Royal Academy of London. This work of art is presently located …show more content…

This is one of the few works he painted in the United States. This work of art is presently located in Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain. In the painting, Dali’s wife, Gala is resting peacefully on a rock beside a pomegranate. In the back, to the right, there is an elephant with extremely long legs. Two tigers are lunging out of a fish which is lunging out of a pomegranate. There also seems to be a sword that is about to wake her. The light colors that Dali used and the appearance of water signify tranquility.
There is no point of concentration when you first look at the painting. However, I’m drawn to the tigers because of the bold, solid lines applied for them. The elephant in the back is painted sideways and blurred out of sight. The pomegranate is repeated. This is a dream that Gala told Dali that she had.
What I get out of this painting is being jolted awake. I know from my own personal experience, I have the feeling that I’m falling in a dream and the feeling jolts me awake. I wake up feeling confused and disoriented. I see Gala doing this after being …show more content…

In the movie, four teenagers all share the same nightmare. They are pursued and murdered by a horribly burned child killer, Freddy Krueger. He sits in their psyche, waiting for them to fall asleep, where he takes them to a boiler room and kills them.
When you watch the movie, it is very apparent that the lines between dreams and reality become blurred. When you die in your dream, you die in real life. One of the characters, Nancy challenges Freddy Krueger. She won’t go without a fight and in that fight, she pulls Freddy’s hat out of her dream. As the movie goes on and more slayings occur, Nancy figures out that fear is what gives Freddy his power and tries to overcome him by pulling him out of her dream and killing him.
I think Freddy is a metaphor for things that plague us in our lives. Stress, anxiety, depression, jobs, homes, relationships, lack of relationships and traumas. Freddy encompasses chaos. He’s a face to put fear to, he’s someone to run away from. However, ultimately, it’s up to us to overcome these things even though they keep coming back and try to take us to the boiler room. Though these things can be scary, we can’t give them the power to take us down. We have to be Nancy in our own right and fight until our version of Freddy no longer pursues

Show More
Related
901 Words | 4 Pages

When looking at the painting for the first time, the viewer’s attention is caught by the bold red, blues, yellows and whites. The prominent primary colours illuminate a clear visual path for the viewer to follow as the subject matters are so vivid compared to the muddy background. The viewer first looks at the golden spheres, starting from the biggest one, before observing the blue and then the red truck. The white diagonal line on the bottom of the truck engages the curiosity of the audience, provoking them to follow down to the dashed road markings. The process is then repeated subconsciously, highlighting how the artwork keeps the viewer moving around the artwork.

Read More
503 Words | 3 Pages

This painting is able to redefine the “still life” painting; Max’s piece is abounding with movement and energy seen most easily in the choice of color as well as brush stokes. In order to analyze a piece of artwork, it is imperative to understand where and how the creator was raised. Peter

Read More
1275 Words | 6 Pages

The Most Dangerous Game Analyze more of the elements written “Rainsford held his breath. The general's eyes had left the ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree. Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring.” Rainsford is a skilled hunter that was challenged.

Read More
1760 Words | 8 Pages

The appealing factor of this paintings comes from its message and juxtaposition of colours and stroke

Read More
700 Words | 3 Pages

All the monsters in the painting could relate to your own inner demons. In the painting, his eyes look tired and sad which I thought the reason was that he is tired of his inner demons. There is also a pair of hands looking that it is praying to God to help in the left corner. In the painting, there is a blue orb in the middle which might symbolize the third eye. In it, there is an explosion which might symbolize a war because of the U.S President.

Read More
796 Words | 4 Pages

The first thing that immediately catches my eye is the large windmill in the background of the painting. The windmill is the focal point of the entire painting. It catches your eye and draws you into the painting. The artwork is dull, there is not a whole lot of color, and the clouds in the sky are dark like it is about to rain. The windmill is on the waterfront, with the ocean on one side and a village on the other side.

Read More
1607 Words | 7 Pages

In this paper I orchestrate to show the dreams of several characters as described in two works, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Dreamer by Charles Johnson. In both of these works, albeit the dreams were different for these characters initially, the end result was for the same purposes. Though various experiences these individuals had to work through, the definition of the American dream

Read More
1616 Words | 7 Pages

North Korea is a country well known for its rich history, landscape, culture as well as much controversy. North Korea, which is located in Eastern Asia, is very easily identifiable on any map. North Korea has the Sea of Japan to the East, the Yellow Sea to the west, Russia and China to the North and of course South Korea directly due south. With an estimated population of nearly 25 million North Korea is a very populated as well as a very secretive country. North Korea is a land rich with culture and history combined with controversy, conflict and political turmoil.

Read More
2740 Words | 11 Pages

There are many overwhelming contrasting views on the idea of gender roles and we see that in Dalí’s paintings where many of his early work were based on fear and loathing of the opposite sex. Throughout the first part of this essay I’m going to discuss the differences in Dalí’s views of the opposite sex and how he represents these views within his paintings. During his early work he portrays a sense fear of the other sex. Dalí had a fear of sexual contact and is represented through his

Read More
1046 Words | 5 Pages

The paintings give myself the feeling that there is a pit in my stomach and makes me want to look at something more uplifting. The colors makes the painting have a darker and gloomier feel. The painting of the soldiers marching to battle shows the men going into the fog, disappearing like ghosts, and raises the thought that maybe Dix was trying to imply that the men would be marching to their death, only to become ghosts and to disappear forever. The center painting is what draws the viewer’s attention to a deadly battle. It shows no survivors and with very little open space in the painting.

Read More
536 Words | 3 Pages

Nightmare is meaning to show the things we are scared/ afraid of facing our fear. King mentions how “we also go re-establish our feelings of essential normality”, which might mean that after watching horror we think about how the real world is (king, Why we crave. 1). Does he really want to make us think about why we over think the most precise thought.

Read More
306 Words | 2 Pages

In the painting there is a great detail that is shown. The tassels on the bed and the way the curtain falls gives a textural component to the painting. The artist also chose to use vertical repetitive lines in the tiles, and the tassels are feminine. There is also a slight curve in her body shape and her backbone, and her voluptuous yet curvy silhouette that shows femininity. Her legs overlapping each other, turban on her head and having her

Read More
713 Words | 3 Pages

The painting itself only has a few objects where your eyes can go and three that it does have, two of them immediately catches your gaze due to the amount of space their difference in value take . The setting itself has only

Read More
1632 Words | 7 Pages

I think that this piece could be emphasising some of his character traits in that he is paranoid and anxious about time quickly passing away. Perhaps this was something that Dali was particularly concerned about when growing older. I am intrigued by this piece by Dali as it creates

Read More
1519 Words | 7 Pages

This exploration of the unconscious on the canvas is what he called his “ paranoiac-critical method”; where he takes some elements experienced in his state of unconsciousness and represent them in his paintings as realistically as possible so that the viewer can interpret it in his own way, using his own experience of the unconscious. He also states that his method is simply the organization of his inner thoughts represented through the balance between subjectivity and objectivity, by relating unusual objects together and using optical illusions . Dali wanted to explore this hidden realm, to discover any personal fears or traumas, that will further help him understand this part of our mind and furthermore represent it in his paintings. He strove to relate dreams to reality to reach the state of ‘ sur-reality’. Just like Freud, Dali explained that dreams come from the subconscious part of the mind, representing suppressed ideas that are usually considered taboo in the real word we live in.

Read More

More about Comparing The Dream Before Awakening And Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare

Related Topics

Open Document