Yume no ukihashi, or The Bridge of Dreams (1854), by Utagawa Toyokuni.

Featured on PDR in the collection The Art of Dreams

Dreams have long proved a fertile ground for human creativity and expression, and no less so than in the visual arts, giving rise to some of its most arresting images. In addition to the many and varied dreams so important to religion and myth there has emerged, in the last few centuries since the birth of Romanticism, an exploration of the more personal dream-world. Indeed, with its link to the unconscious, the form has perhaps proved the perfect vehicle for those artists looking to surface that which lies submerged - desire, guilt, fear, ambition - to bring to light the truth the waking mind keeps hid.

Yume no ukihashi, or The Bridge of Dreams

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1854


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