More about "art and dream" in Decameron

The final quote is: "Why realizing a work of art when a dream is more beautiful" (quoting from memory.)

The operative word is REALIZING, as in MAKING. This is a question by the artist about his own art and art in general. Not incidentally, it comes at the end of the film.

Also, the painter has completed only two parts of a triptych. The last one is still blank. And yet everybody celebrates the completion of the job.

These are the only two heavily symbolic moments in the entire film, a film that emphatically embraces realism, not symbolism.

Any thoughts about these observations?

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