Dream (Soul escaping from sleep) - SKETCHLINE

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1929

Dream (Soul escaping from sleep)

author

Ángeles Santos Torroella

description

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

Briefly about the painting:

The surrealistic painting, according to the artist, is directly connected with poems of Garcia Lorca and represents a display of some special feelings towards the other world. The character’s body looks as if its essence is divided in half. The soul that was “released” is projected as a shadow of the body and a few more phantoms going up. This is hardly the soul that escapes at dawn and lights the stars in the poem of Lorca. Perhaps, the artists idea was connected with anguish to understand the incomprehensible, including her own art.