The Dream (The Bed)

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The Dream (The Bed) is a surreal 1940 painting by Frida Kahlo that depicts the artist sleeping beneath a hovering skeleton on a canopy bed, symbolizing her preoccupation with death and suffering.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf painting
artisticStyle fantastical
symbolic
countryOfOrigin Mexico
creator Frida Kahlo NERFINISHED
creatorNationality Mexican
depicts Frida Kahlo NERFINISHED
canopy
canopy bed
death symbolism
dream
skeleton
skeleton lying on canopy
sleeping woman
suffering
genre surrealism
hasInfluence Mexican folk art
personal biography of Frida Kahlo
hasTheme death
dreams
mortality
pain
personal trauma
suffering
unconscious mind
inception 1940
languageOfWork none
mainSubject Frida Kahlo NERFINISHED
medium oil painting
movement Surrealism
narrativeFocus artist’s physical and emotional suffering
artist’s preoccupation with death
notableFor exploration of death and suffering
imagery of hovering skeleton above bed
originalTitleLanguage Spanish
partOf Frida Kahlo oeuvre
title The Dream (The Bed) NERFINISHED

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Frida Kahlo’s artworks notableWork The Dream (The Bed)