Wet Dream is an oil painting by Paul Jaisini that explores human sexuality and dreams. It depicts several nude female figures in erotic poses and states of arousal. Jaisini uses fluid, curving lines and forms to enhance the feeling of sensuality. The painting combines physical and psychological elements in a way that is nearly a game, rather than taking a simple approach to eroticism like some other artists. The work demonstrates how desire is an endless part of human existence that continues through our bodies and works of art.

1. WET DREAM, Oil painting by Paul Jaisini
Wet Dream, an oil painting by Paul Jaisini, in terms of exploration of own sexuality, dreams,
or nightmares, belongs to a human traditional need for personal revelations. The imagery of
the work is of a usually Jaisinesque theme that is not to be a statement or an illusion, but
which summons the emotions.

2. In Wet Dream, the feelings of morning euphoria and desire create a new formula of early
life’s passion. Paul Jaisini delivers a high sensory level through the graduate, almost
hypnotic step by step desire awakening.
The work precedes the Reincarnation series. As in all of his paintings, Paul Jaisini pursues a
metamorphosis of the physical and mental states. In his works, the concept and the material
are enclosed and inserted within each other. The essential visual vehicle is in a line, that
emphatically has a life of its own and could be perceived as an automatic release. The
enclosure of the line is not only graphical, but also symbolic of the connection between the
picture’s elements which await their disclosure.
In the years of cubism, Andre Masson created his series of erotic drawings. In his works,
Masson portrayed pure erotica with total absorption in the act, orgiastic, uncomplicated, and
a little banal. The lack of diversity in such a subject matter as eroticism resulted in the
Masson’s scenes of pairs, trios, or even dozens of naked women interacting in a sexual way
with one another. Masson filled these scenes with a Rubensian appreciation of the flesh and
its pleasures, the very quality which impoverishes the otherwise fruitful area of human
psyche.
Paul Jaisini, on the contrary, uses the sensual overtones to enrich and explore the
mysterious realm of mind potential. So, instead of creating automatically, similarly, and
limited, P. Jaisini employs his mind to complicate and develop the subject of desire.
In Masson’s erotic series, the only sentiment is the libidinous desire. Paul Jaisini reflects a
different time and epoch that is not satisfied with the simple approach. Paul Jaisini combines
together the physical with psychological, which becomes nearly a game.
The expressionistic line swirls flow in the open canvas ground and embrace the canvas in
expansive loops. The work is airy.

3. The artist’s thought transfers line into an image of a contraposto torso with a liplike part on
the neck cut. Another female images express their physical and emotional concerns. The
bottom lean figure indicates the young age of this female. In turn, that may explain the
desperate pose for the erotic fulfillment. The third blond woman at the upper right corner
appears to be more sexually mature. She holds a big breast that belongs to another female
with a face that has only big red lips and flowing down hair lines. Here, we find a profile of a
man who seems to sniff the aroma of the female bodies not without pleasure. In the center,
there is another gasping profile. The curvilinear forms enhance the overall impression of a
fluid movement, which so well corresponds to the erotic sensation. A phallic finger touches a
soft pillow and charges erotic energy in all other phallic configurations in Wet Dream.
All images link in their conscious-unconscious, figurative-abstract condition.
The cycle of desire goes on endlessly and is at the core of human existence. In Wet Dream,
P. Jaisini liberates the desire from the self. In this well born work of art the desire is taken for
a model. The work demonstrates what we know of creation to be a combination of already
existing things into newer forms. That being so, the desire of man must have been in an
endless existence and will continue to dwell in bodies and in works of art to which Wet
Dream is an example.
Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb
Review of “Wet Dream” by Paul Jaisini
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