Exploring the Creative Spaces of Famous Artists

Claude Monet had a worn, soft-cushioned sofa to sit on to survey his wide waterlily canvases from afar. Francis Bacon worked in a savage sort of mess, with discarded paint tubes tossed into foot-high pyramids. Frida Kahlo painted in more orderly terms, with clean white-washed walls and rows of pottery lined up on shelving. The ageing Henri Matisse made sculptures from his bed. Paul Klee had two workspaces in two different cities and delighted in returning to his “half-finished children” that waited for him each time he travelled from one studio to the other. Every artist’s studio will be different. For a painter, there will likely be an easel, a stool, a sketchbook, a rag cloth and a painter’s palette. Rows of blank canvases might be stacked up against a wall, glass jars filled with paint brushes, some worn and brittle, others unsullied, a bottle of distilled turpentine, and the sweet smell of linseed oil seeping from the oil paint tubes, all of them squeezed, kneaded, pressed by thumbs, creased and cracked. For the painter of landscapes, their studio is likely filled with drawings and sketches made on excursions and brought back to develop into a fully painted image. The walls might be adorned with vignettes and reference photos, making the space seem like a living organism of its own. For sculptors, plaster casts of classical sculptures might aid inspiration. Other traditional objects — carpets, swords, lutes, pearls and whatever else might be useful in the artist’s depiction of an invented scene — could be arranged, near at hand, for sculptors and painters alike. <a href="https://christopherpjones.medium.com/exploring-the-creative-spaces-of-famous-artists-f5ec029a9967">Visit Now</a>