Dream and painting in Czech art in 1930s

One of the main goals of the thesis entitled Dreams and Painting in Czech Art in 1930s is to describe the relationship between dreams and fine arts. Through studding artists' approach to this topic and analyzing their works of art I want to explain in which way and to what degree dreams can influence art. The paper is focusing only on Czech artistic scene where some artists belonged to the Surrealist movement. As distinct from the French scene, in Czechoslovakia not only Surrealists were interested and inspirited by unconsciousness. The described pictures use various techniques of painting, drawing, collage and photography. The artists capture dreams' imagery or fill the painting with a dreamlike atmosphere. The first chapter is a theoretical introduction to the adaptation of dreams by art. It acquaints the reader with the groundbreaking work The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) written by Sigmund Freud. It also deals with the reaction other writers had to this publication. The second chapter deals with the illusions of dreams (the motif which is often repeated in Jindřich Štyrský's work and refers to his childhood) that is characterized as object-phantom. Another significant motif is the surrealistic dreamlike landscape typical for Josef Šíma and František Hudeček and the city landscape that is..