The Dream - Life Size Posters Living Room Art Décor Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

with windmills and the tricolor flags flying on them

The slopes of the roofs

The artists of Die Brücke reacted against narrative realism and Impressionism by seeking to achieve a new and emotionally expressive form of art

the flowers and shrubs are created with tiny dabs of colour

The Dream - Life Size Posters Living Room Art Décor Paul GauguinThe Dream is the largest of the jungle paintings. It features an almost surreal portrait of Yadwigha (Jadwiga), Rousseau's Polish mistress from his youth, lying naked on a divan to the left of the painting, gazing over a landscape of lush jungle foliage, including lotus flowers, and animals including birds, monkeys, an elephant, a lion and lioness, and a snake.