31 maart 2014

Fabrice Hyber
























Fabrice Hyber in zijn atelier. Uit een serie van 30 foto's (hk). (bron: Otra Vista, foto's: Baptiste Lignel)

> Fabrice Hyber

29 maart 2014

Keith Haring #3
















Keith Haring in zijn atelier. Uit een serie van 17 foto's (hk). (bron: Otra Vista, foto's Baptiste Lignel)

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Raymond Pettibon #3


Artist Raymond Pettibon in his home studio in Long Beach. (bron en foto: Richart Hartog)

Raymond Pettibon #2










Raymond Pettibon in zijn atelier. Uit een serie van 14 foto's (hk). (bron: Otra Vista, foto's: Baptiste Lignel)

> Raymond Pettibon

28 maart 2014

Thomas Houseago


Thomas Houseago in seinem Studio in Los Angeles. Bron: Die Welt, foto: Brian van der Brug)

Thomas Houseago in his studio in Los Angeles.

Thomas Houseago's studio.

Work in progress: a reclining figure.

"At Thomas Houseago’s studio building in east Los Angeles, which spans a full city block beside the giant concrete trench known as the LA River, the road is closed to traffic. The mechanical arm of a refuse truck is lifting metal dumpsters and tipping their contents into its hopper. White plaster dust billows across the street. Houseago’s team is cleaning up. Once a week, the piles of plaster, hessian, clay, broken sculptures and cracked casts that accumulate in the studio are swept together and cleared out. Houseago used to do this himself; then, when it began to take two days out of each week, he delegated it to assistants. Now he employs a staff of 20, and has five foundries in the US working to cast his prolific output of sculptures in high-strength Tuf-Cal casting plaster or clay into dark bronze or pale, silvery aluminium.
....

The building is divided into offices, a drawing studio, an outdoor yard and two sculpture studios – one messy and one for finished (or nearly finished) works. The latter, a barrel-vaulted hangar that used to be a shooting range, is filled with heads on plinths and masks on walls, columns, cats, owls, disembodied limbs, wall reliefs and statuesque bodies. Everything is larger than life. Some pieces, such as a pointing plaster finger as tall as a man, are almost comically huge. Another, an 8ft seated woman, was inspired by a photograph of the singer Rihanna, spotted by Houseago on the cover of Esquire magazine. In many sculptures, the iron rebar that undergirds their construction can be seen hanging out of their untidy backs. Others retain the pencil lines of Houseago’s drawings, imprinted into smooth white plaster.
...." (bron: Financial Times Magazine)


Thomas Houseago's studio in Frogtown, near the Los Angeles River. (bron: Los Angeles Times, foto: Brian van der Brug)


Reclining Figure (For Rome), 2013, installation at Thomas Houseago’s studio. (bron: damiensaatdjian)

27 maart 2014

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Harke Kazemier: Oceaan vlucht, 2014, olie en collage op doek, 100 x 100 cm.

Meer werk van mij is te zien op mijn site.
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Karel Appel #7





Karel Appel in zijn atelier aan de Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 1947. (bron: Beeldbank Stadsarchief Amsterdam, foto's: Dirk de Herder)

Zie ook de post van 6 november 2012 (hk).

> Karel Appel Foundation

Horace Vernet


Horace Vernet: l'Atelier, 1822.

"In 1822, French artist Horace Vernet painted l'Atelier, a picture which, through the many engravings made of it, was to become an extremely popular image with the public. In it, Vernet, who stands just off center with his back to the viewer, is fencing with his pupil Ledieu, in what can only be a brief distraction from painting, as the two men still hold their palettes and brushes in their left hands as they trade blows with the foils in their right hands. Duchesne, another of Vernet's students, rests nearby against a chair, casually holding a rifle. Artist Robert Fleury sits at an easel in the left hand of the image while Monsieur de Forbin, Director of Museums for France, closely observes. Just behind de Forbin, painter and engraver Eugène Lami leans on a piano, played by the composer Amédée de Beauplan, and blows a horn while another man, Montcarville, accompanies him on the drum. Among the remaining inhabitants of the room, there are soldiers (in fact, almost every man in the painting was at one time a soldier), a man reading a newspaper (Colonel Jean-Charles Langlois), two resting boxers (Monfort and Lehoux, two more of Vernet's students), a dog barking at a deer, a monkey sitting upon the shoulder of Vernet's pupil Ladurner, and last, but not least, Le Régent, the not-so-inconspicuos white horse in the back corner of the room. Though in actuality a radical political image with thinly veiled allusions to Bonapartist loyalties, most saw it as one in a long-line of pictures of artists in their studios, especially in later years, when items within the work, such as the outlawed black hat hanging on the wall, had lost their significance.

Though friends did confirm that the actual attic studio which Vernet depicted was often a real-life scene of crowds and rowdiness, it is unlikely that the chaos he portrayed was anything but fictional. Vernet's friend, Charlet, in reaction to the public's belief in the veracity of the scene, commented: "People imagine him all the time fencing with one hand and painting with the other : horn-playing here, boxing there. Rubbish! He knows well enough how to shut himself away when he writes his letters and only addresses the envelopes when in company."¹ In other words, Vernet knew when to buckle down and paint, and knew also when to put on a show for the public. Yet the populace believed that this scene was typical of the working habits of artists.

Why was it so easy for the public to believe that this was the life of the artist? Certainly artists contributed to the idea; many artists in the 19th century relished portraying themselves as eccentric outsiders, and would have themselves photographed in staged poses, wearing such items as velvet smoking jackets and fezzes while painting. But what seems more likely as a contributing factor to the view that an artist's life was filled with frivolity and ease is a miscomprehension on the part of the public as to the idea of talent, and what role talent plays in making a painting.
...." (bron: Underpaintings)

26 maart 2014

Karel Appel #6














Karel Appel in zijn atelier, New York, 1966. (bron: Beeldbank Stadsarchief Amsterdam, foto's: Sem Presser)

> Karel Appel Foundation

25 maart 2014

Rose Wylie #3


Rose Wylie in her studio, Kent, 2010. (bron: National Portrait Gallery, foto: Henry Browne)




Rose Wylie pictured in her studio at her home in Kent. (bron: The Times, foto's: Nick Ray)

Rose Wylie #2


(bron: The Moscow Times)


Rose Wylie in her studio, 2011. (bron: State)

Rose Wylie




Rose Wylie in her studio. (bron en foto: Joe McGorty)


(bron: Ahoy Land Ahoy)


Artist Rose Wylie in her studio. (bron: The Telegraph)

(bron: oh comely)


(bron: Union Gallery)