Title: Bob Dylan
Content: Far East. "The New York Times" reported that "some fans and Dylanologists have raised questions about whether some of these paintings are based on the singer's own experiences and observations, or on photographs that are widely available and were not taken by Mr. Dylan." "The Times" pointed to close resemblances between Dylan's paintings and historic photos of Japan and China, and photos taken by Dmitri Kessel and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Art critic Blake Gopnik has defended Dylan's artistic practice, arguing: "Ever since the birth of photography, painters have used it as the basis for their works: Edgar Degas and Edouard Vuillard

Title: George Tooker
Content: George Tooker George Clair Tooker, Jr. (August 5, 1920 – March 27, 2011) was an American figurative painter. His works are associated with Magic realism, Social realism, Photorealism and Surrealism. His subjects are depicted naturally as in a photograph, but the images use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. He did not agree with the association of his work with Magic realism or Surrealism, as he said, "I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams

Title: David Humphrey (artist)
Content: including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, the Rome Prize in 2008, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award in 2011. He was born in Augsburg Germany and raised in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He lives and works in New York City. In 1984 David Humphrey was included in a group exhibition with George Condo, Carroll Dunham, Kenny Scharf, and others called "New Hand-Painted Dreams: Contemporary Surrealism" at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, which put forward "neo-surealism" as a possible movement. His paintings were characterized in the New York Times as "surrealist-tinged" in a 1996 article on artists writing criticism. Humphrey himself

Title: Olaf Kühnemann
Content: Kühnemann showed two groups of paintings in the exhibition: large scale paintings on wood from 2007-2008, alongside paintings in which the photographs are only a conceptual point of reference, falling apart into abstraction. In the 2014 "Turpentine Dreams" exhibition, that was held at the Fienberg Projects gallery in Tel Aviv, Kühnemann displayed a group of paintings which were the result of his search for a new visual language. At this stage, he completely detached himself from photos and external images, and consciously attempted to paint without creating a narrative or images that might be recognized and related. "Kühnemann is seemingly

Title: Jacques Benoit
Content: in November 2006, closing in March 2007. It consisted of 28 large format canvases and a series of monotype linocut prints. Among these works, "A Painter’s Dream", a four-piece polyptych that imagined an allegorical meeting between Oscar Niemeyer, Stanley Kubrick and Kate Bush, as well as the painting "Clouds", another allegorical meeting, this time bringing Oscar Niemeyer and Joni Mitchell together. In 2009, the mayor of the city of La Chatre in the French region of Indre, Nicolas Forissier, invited Jacques Benoit to exhibit at the Château d'Ars's art galleries for a two-month event that combined different themes exploited by

Question: Who described his paintings as "hand-painted dream photographs?"
Answer: Salvador Dali