2 / Dreams and Visions

• • The Ecstasy of St. TeresaGian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian, 1598–1680)	Garden of Earthly DelightsHieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish, ca. 1450–1516)	The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq from the Bustan of SacdiUnknown painter; Sultan Muhammad Nur (calligrapher) (Uzbekistani, active first half of 16th century)	The ScreamEdvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944)	The False MirrorRené Magritte (Belgian, 1898–1967)	Le Pont-au-Change (The Exchange Bridge, Paris)Charles Méryon (French, 1821–1868)
    St. Francis of AssisiFrancisco de Zurbaràn (Spanish, 1598–1644)	The Four SleepersMokuan Reien (Japanese, d. 1345)	Revenge of the GoldfishSandy Skoglund (American, b. 1946)	Women’s Dreamings of the Tanami Desert 2Margaret Anjullu (Anjule Bumblebee) (Aboriginal, n.d.)	“Sisilia Sii–Weaver”Flores Island, Indonesia	Utatane soshi emaki (A Wakeful Sleep)Tosa Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1434–1525)
    Dream, Caused by the Flight of a Bee (Around a Pomegranate, a Second Before Waking Up)Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904–1989)	Angel of the RevelationWilliam Blake (English, 1757–1827)	The JungleWifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902–1982)	The Broken ColumnFrida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954)	HeadrestShona artist, Zimbabwe	Lintel 25 of Yaxchilán Structure 23Maya artist, Yaxchilán, Chiapas, Mexico

expert perspective

Natasha Staller Professor of the History of Art, Amherst College

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All of art carries the deepest human emotions and sense of possibility and dreams and sometimes nightmares too. And that’s why it’s able to move us, over cultures and over centuries. And with Munch, there is very deeply a sense of someone struggling, a life and death struggle within their demons. It’s very, very much a sense of his own losing loved ones, terror of sickness and death—strident cacophonous colors, these shooting lines going backward in The Scream, fighting off against these wild, undulating curves on fire in the sky. I see that as a very personal grappling with the nightmare.”