El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters), Enrique Chagoya; Segura Publishing

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Enrique Chagoya; Segura Publishing, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
Enrique Chagoya; Segura Publishing, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
Enrique Chagoya
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters)
1999
Enrique Chagoya
born 1953
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters), 1999
Portfolio/Series title: The Return to Goya's Caprichos
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: aquatint; wove paper; etching
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 210 x 147 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 367 x 279 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 7/16 x 11 0.9843 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 1999.0142.06
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on Paper," Jun-2001, Stephen Goddard The Caprichos, a series of 80 viciously cynical prints etched by Francisco Goya in 1799, are a high-water mark in the genre of the satirical print. Generations of artists have responded to Goya’s superb images that concern the imperfec-tions of humanity. In this case, the contemporary Mexican American artist Enrique Chagoya brings the Caprichos up to date. In number 43 (The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters) the demons in Goya’s prototype have become fighters and bombers, and in number 51, in which Goya ridiculed witches who spruce themselves up, we see Senator Jesse Helms and Jerry Falwell trimming their nails after they have cut off the feet of Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby that they identified with gay pride. Archive Label 2003 (version 2): One of the many prints inspired by Dürer’s Melencolia I is Francesco Goya’s best known print, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters from his series Los Caprichos. Enrique Chagoya has recently brought Goya’s brilliant satirical prints up to date. In this instance nuclear waste and the instruments of war have induced melancholy and the sleep of reason.