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Kyla Imani "Track Star" Remix 

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Transcript
Narrator: Sonia Delaunay’s "Toy Box," from 1913, is a sculpture made of wood and painted with acrylic. Its body is a rectangular box around 8 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 9 inches deep. It has an upper lid that is hinged on one of its long sides. The lid gently rises in the middle to form a barrel-shape with an arching crest along the two shorter sides. 

Brightly painted playful geometric shapes cover the entire surface. They include rectangles, triangles, quadrilaterals and other multisided polygons, as well as stripes of varying thicknesses. The shapes are oriented in different directions and some of their edges seem to overlap as if layered. Each shape is a single color, saturated yet muted. The box primarily features tomato red, cantaloupe orange, mustard yellow, navy, and mint green, and there are touches of blush, butter yellow, slate blue, toffee, mahogany, black, and creamy white.  

The paint has been applied to the surface in layers. Throughout the box, the top layer has chipped away to reveal speckles of an underlayer in cantaloupe orange. At some places along the sculpture’s edges, the paint has completely worn away to reveal its wooden form and the tiny nails that hold it together. In some areas, the blocks of color are vaguely transparent, gently veiling the orange color beneath. Wide brush strokes are often visible, indicating the daubs and directions of the artist’s hand. 

On close inspection, a few unique shapes on the box stand out because they suggest stylized representative forms, rather than abstract elements. On the top of the lid, a dark circle outlined thinly in red sits near one corner. The circle’s center is divided into three segments: One quarter is white, another quarter is black, and the remaining half is brown. There are other brown, white, and black circles on the lid: one bordered with a crescent shape at its edge; one with stripes beaming from it like rays, and one uniformly dotted in white. These represent cosmic forms such as moons, suns, and stars. These dark tones seem to recede within the brighter, colorful surroundings.  

Also on the top of the lid, a brown square sits tilted at an angle with a red triangle projecting from one side. This form is a simple building with a gabled roof. Nearby, a subtle brown arrow extends from one of the lid’s edges, indicating how the box opens. On the box’s sides, other shapes are possibly representational, such as a simplified windmill, a tree, and streetlights.  

Just beneath the lid, a thin horizontal stripe of blue runs along the box’s four sides, and a similar stripe runs along the base in tomato red and black. The lid’s four sides are painted with side-by-side blocks of color in cantaloupe orange, tomato red, creamy white, navy, and black. The blocks vary in width and height, getting taller where the lid arches upward on its two shorter edges. 

Adapted from Caitlin Glosser’s essay “Sonia Delaunay: Simultaneity Freed from Painting”, Delaunay produced work in diverse materials, including this wooden toy box, regardless of their perceived value. She explained, “[T]he true beauty of an object is not an effect of taste but is intimately tied to its function.”

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Narrator: "Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic)" by Francis Picabia is an oil-on-canvas painting from 1913 that measures about 10 feet square. The work features shapes in a cacophony of bold colors that form a dynamic abstract composition and convey three-dimensionality and movement.  

Black tones command the painting’s grand, larger-than-life scale. Deep black shapes seem to recede as if layered beneath the brighter, more vibrant shapes that rhythmically fill the rest of the composition. Each shape is cleanly defined. Many are geometric polygons with hard, straight edges. These are painted gold, rust, vibrant grape purple, ocean blue, gray, and white. The colors within each shape are not uniform but rather fade from deep vibrant shades into lighter, whiter, and more opaque tones. This color play adds to the work’s dynamic sense of layering, depth, and movement. 

Many shapes also feature one or more organically curved edges. For instance, a rust-colored shape slightly below left of center is defined by a straight, hard line on its right side. The line is oriented diagonally, as if pointing from the bottom left of the canvas toward the top right. The shape’s left edge is organic—a curved line bows out from its bottom and tapers as it moves upward.  

A few striking and unusual shapes in the work convey a sense of three-dimensional movement. Near the upper left, layering of purple shapes may suggest that they are floating in space like falling paper confetti. Near the right of the composition’s center, a black corkscrew begins to curve in a clockwise direction while simultaneously descending. It completes one full circle while its gently winding tail drops.  

Near the composition’s center sits a white boomerang shape. Other white shapes cluster in this area. Two circles seem to be layered, one slightly offset from the other. Two columns, not straight but gently bowing to the left, drop from the boomerang shape. At the columns’ bottoms, there is a small shape that tilts slightly to the upper left of the canvas. 

The artist, Picabia, was preoccupied with bodies in motion, and these dynamic white forms represent the head, body, legs, and feet of a dancing figure. The title of the painting, written lightly at the upper right edge of the canvas, is nonsensical in French but acts as a quasi-anagram of étoil[e] and dans[e], meaning “star” and “dancer”. It references the dancer and film star Stacia Napierkowska who Picabia encountered during a performance aboard an ocean liner. Her figure moves amongst the angular metallic grey and undulating blue shapes representing the ship and movements of the ocean. The subtitle, "Ecclesiastic," points to a priest the artist once spotted intently observing dancers, perhaps represented in the painting by vibrant purple.

Description of Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic) (Edtaonisl [Ecclésiastique]), 1913

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