J. P. - SLEEPING EFFORT - 1953 - Abstract - Canvas Print

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------J. P. (American, 1912-1956) - SLEEPING EFFORT - 1953 - Abstract Expressionism, Abstraction, Figurative - Oil and Enamel on canvas - 𝑯𝒊-𝑹𝒆𝒔 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 ----------------------------------------------------------------------𝑱. 𝑷.'𝒔 "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕," 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟑, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒊𝒗𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓, 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑱. 𝑷.'𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑨𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍, 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔, 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒙, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆-𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏. "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕" 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑱. 𝑷.'𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉, 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌-𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒊𝒍-𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒖𝒎, 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎, 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑱. 𝑷.'𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔, 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒑 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒑 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕" 𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆, 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔, 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔, 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝒚𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒙𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑱. 𝑷. 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒈𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒚𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕" 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝑱. 𝑷. 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒈𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝒓ó. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑱. 𝑷.'𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓-𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎.