True Romance

I find HARTMANN the better out of the two...probably for purely superficial reasons...

Does the external carry over into our dreams? Lewes seems to think so...

This was a little weird...

I found this while looking for Midsummer pieces...This was a design created by Kelvin Davies for a past production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the American Repertory Theatre. It looks pretty bizarre which attracted me to it. It looks as though there is a head dreaming and his dreams look sort of like a forest and there are many images embedded into it - it looks a little like a Picasso painting. Can anyone spot some images that go along with the story? I see some bottles - it could be the love potion that is used to provoke manipulated love especially between Titania and Bottom. The whole design just exemplifies the erratic behaviors of all the characters when under spells not within their own control.

Source from: http://www.amrep.org/midsummer/

Jacob's dream is my favorite...

There are very similar images in regards to Jacob's dream, but each artist portrays their image with a different emotion or from a different point of view...

Testa, Pietro (1611-1650)
Jacob's Dream.
Location :Accademia di S. Luca, Rome, Italy
Photo Credit : Scala / Art Resource, NY

In this one, the artist portrays Jacob in deep, deep slumber with the ladder portrayed as smoke. The colors are very earthy, dark, and soothing while the angels are painted more brighter putting more emphasis on the dream.

Fetti, Domenico (1589-1624)
Jacob's dream, c. 1620.
Location :Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Photo Credit : Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY Fetti, Domenico (1589-1624)

This was my favorite for some reason. Jacob looks distressed and there is more emphasis placed on him, even though you don't really see his face. The ladder, in this case, is not smoky, but is gold. This one seems very realistic to me.

Leopold, Michael Lucas (17th CE)
Landscape with the dream of Jacob. Photo: Joerg P. Anders.
Location :
Photo Credit : Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY

This one is very different because more emphasis is placed on the landscape - God's nature - and the artist shows a separation between the two trees and lets in the heavens (which is brighter than the rest). Jacob is not emphasized as he blends with the background.

I think the second one does justice because it shows the effect Jacob's dream had on everyone, especially his family. The third mostly emphasizes on God's inclusion in Jacob's life and the first is mostly resonant of a dream state. All very different, but with the same dream...