The Rapidity of Sleep and Similar Yves Tanguy Art
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The Rapidity of Sleep
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Appointment:
1945
Artist:
Yves Tanguy
American, built-in France, 1900–1955
About this artwork
This painting exemplifies Yves Tanguy's late style, especially as he practiced it after his move to the U.s. in 1939, where he married the American painter Kay Sage. The forms have become harder and more than sculptural, resembling strangely shaped stones, rather than the baggy creatures of his earlier paintings, and echoing more than clearly the prehistoric stones—the dolmens and menhirs—of Tanguy'due south native Brittany. Color is besides intensified, equally the artist makes more generous utilise of the orange-red and blue establish only spottily in earlier works, such every bit his 1928 screen. The organization, size, and shape of these forms has become more varied, from the regimented clustering of forms on the right to the horizontal handful of forms on the left and in the groundwork. The viewer is also brought visually closer to the scene through the cropping of forms in the foreground.
The title of the painting (inscribed on the back as La Rapidite des sommeils) works in conjunction with the image to heighten its enigma and mystery, as in the works of Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte. Perhaps the title refers to the onset of slumber, or to the different stages of slumber, as the French use of the plural "sommeils" seems to propose. This interpretation seems to find a visual equivalent in the progression from congested, active foreground to sparse, quiet back-ground, from the thicket of vertical forms on the right to the more relaxed rhythm of horizontal forms extending into the distance. In the middle ground, at left, is an unusual configuration that seems particularly evocative in relation to the championship. A horizontal grade reminiscent of a sleeping effigy lies, as in a bed or coffin, within the rectangular space defined by a rocklike edge. Is Tanguy referring to the sleep that ushers in the dream-world of his landscapes or to the ultimate sleep, the sleep of death? The mood of the flick hovers uncertainly between the ominous and the wistful, betwixt lower and upper halves, engendering a want to traverse the inhospitable foreground to reach the soothing, misty reaches of the background. Given the date of the work, at the end of World War II, ane as well wonders whether at that place is embedded in this work something of the emotional tenor of the times, a yearning for a peace that would transcend recent history.
—Entry, Margherita Andreotti, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, Vol. twenty, No. 2, The Joseph Winterbotham Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago (1994), p. 176-177.
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Condition
- On View
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Department
- Modern Art
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Artist
- Yves Tanguy
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Championship
- The Rapidity of Slumber
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- 1945
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Medium
- Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
- 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm)
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Credit Line
- Joseph Winterbotham Drove
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Reference Number
- 1946.46
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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