[ The World Times ] The Dream

When we think of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the first thing that may come to mind is his oil painting titled The Weeping Woman, created in 1937. However, there is another artwork that represents his amazing artistic career. It is an oil on canvas painting titled The Dream, produced in 1932 and measuring 130 cm by 97 cm.

 

As Picasso invented Cubism in association with French painter Georges Braque, he employed many lines to produce The Dream. With the lines, he was able to depict the woman in the painting as if she is being appreciated from different angles at the same time.

 

In addition, Picasso used various contrasting colors to create The Dream. Thus, many art experts concluded that not only did he cling to Cubist styles, but that he also used techniques based on Fauvism, a radical art movement characterized by the use of bright and intense colors, when he created the painting.

 

As we can speculate from the title, The Dream depicts a dreaming woman who was known to be Picasso's mistress named Marie-Therese Walter. As the woman has a faint smile on her face and is comfortably sitting on a cushiony couch with her hands gently placed on her stomach, many art experts have argued that she was probably dreaming of seeing her long-awaited baby soon. Unfortunately, those who are interested in admiring the painting in person cannot do so, as it became part of a privately owned collection in the late 1990s.

 

*weep v. 울다, 눈물을 흘리다. / She started to weep uncontrollably. 

*invent v. 발명하다 / Who invented the steam engine?

                (사실이 아닌 것을) 지어내다, 날조하다 / What excuse did he invent this time?

*cubism 입체파

*employ v. 고용하다 / How many people does the company employ?

                 (기술.방법 등을 ) 쓰다, 이용하다. / He criticized the repressive methods employed by the country's government.

*depict v. (그림으로) 그리다 / a painting depicting the Virgin and Child. 

                (말이나 그림으로) 묘사하다, 그리다 / The novel depicts French society in the 1930s.

*as if 마치 ~인 것처럼(=as though) / Fearless and high-spirited, they rushed into battle as if in sport.

*appreciate v. 진가를 알아보다, 인정하다 / You can't really appreciate foreign literature in translation. 

                       고마워하다, 환영하다 / I'd appreciate some help.

                       (제대로) 인식하다 / What I failed to appreciate was the distance between the two cities. 

*thus 이렇게 하여, 이와 같이 / Many scholars have argued thus. 

         따라서, 그러므로 / He is the eldest son and thus heir to the title. 

*conclude v. 결론을 내리다. / What do you conclude from that?

                     끝나다, 끝내다, 마치다. / Let me make just a few concluding remarks. 

                     (협정. 조약을) 맺다, 체결하다 / They concluded a treaty with Turkey. 

*cling v. 꼭 붙잡다, 매달리다 / survivors clinging to a raft.

              달라붙다, 들러붙다 / a dress that clings

              애착을 갖다 / After her mother's death, Sara clung to her aunt more than ever. 

*cling to something ~을 고수하다, ~에 매달리다 / Throughout the trial she had clung to the belief that he was innocent. 

*fauvism 야수파

*radical a. 근본적인, 철저한 / the need for radical changes in education

                급진적인, 과격한 / radical ideas

                급진파의, 급진주의의 / the radical wing of the party

*intense a. 극심한, 강렬한 / intense heat, intense cold, intense pain

                 치열한 / intense competition

                 (사람이) 열정적인, 진지한 / an intense look

*speculate v. 추측하다, 짐작하다 / We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation.

                     (주식등에서) 투기하다 / He likes to speculate on the stock market. 

*mistress n. (보통 기혼 남자의) 정부

*faint a. (빛,소리,냄새 등이) 희미한 / a faint glow, a faint glimmer, a faint light

              (가능성 등이) 아주 적은 / There is still a faint hope that she may be cured.