... as beautiful but was also widely misunderstood. The painting is appropriately titled. As Rousseau once explained, "The woman on the sofa dreams that she has been transferred to this forest and she listens to the sound of the snake charmer. " Many critics simply could not understand why, if the woman is transported to the jungle via a dream, would the sofa on which she reclines appear with her ... " (52-53). This is a clear reference to the muses in de Chirico's painting, which are casting long shadows bathed in an orange light, giving the impression that the sun is either rising or setti...

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... nature scene with her head hidden and her body sprawled in an awkward and confronting position as she lays on her back on a pile of straw and leaves with her only visible hand holding a burning gas lamp (figure 3). The hilly and forest-like landscape overthrows calm pond and endless blue sky, dotted by soft white clouds. To ... the right a waterfall gently flows. The view is seen through a deliberately made hole which gives a feeling of distance and looking into another world (figure 4). The backgrounds immaculate nature alienates the motionless and confronting body while the only moving...

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... caused him to have a futile mindset towards formal philosophy. His views and ideas of the natural world left a significant impact on young Giotto, a young Italian painter. Giotto looked at how nature was. In his works, he portrayed a direct observation of nature as he modeled with light and shading, used human emotions, and attempted to create linear perspective. Giotto had ... received this inspiration for his works from St. Francis as he tried to continue the observations and beauty of nature in his paintings. In both Giotto's and Francis' renderings ... the forest to create niches in...

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