Consider Rousseau's The Dream and Piranesi's "The Sawhorse." Both works are imaginative rather than realistic. Compare the methods each artist uses in creating these images.

What will be an ideal response?

Painting, like poetry, can bring an imaginary world to life. Rousseau's indifference to art traditions resulted in paintings like The Dream, which depicted a lush, complex design that does not exist in real life. Piranesi's "The Sawhorse," has a far darker atmosphere, featuring images of torture devices and objects of horror. The work is an etching, a medium whose aggressive strokes and cut lines emphasize the violent mood.