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Inside Places
•Pictures about inside places often refer to situations and scenes of everyday life. Subjects typically include domestic settings, interiors, mealtimes and private spaces that we inhabit. Bathrooms, bedrooms or kitchens, a table top or a window ledge are all places where the things that we can observe tell us a story about the person or people who live in these places.
•They may give us clues as to how old the person is, how wealthy or poor they are, what they like, how tidy or messy they are or what interests them. By looking closely at the things they leave behind we can even sometimes guess what time of day it may be. Look at the work of Australian artist Margaret Olley’s Interior IV ,1970 and other works of intimate interiors of her home to find out something about her.
•In his series called Bedroom in Arles, 1888 – 1889, it is as if the artist Vincent van Gogh has invited the viewer inside to see the room where he lives and works. From these paintings we get a feeling for the type of person he was and see how he lived.
•Painting of inside places without any people in the work often feel like the person who lives there has just left the room and, because these are private places, the viewer of the art work may feel like an intruder, that they shouldn’t be looking. They may feel uncomfortable viewing someone else’s private place. French artist Edgar Degas’ works Woman Bathing in a Shallow Tub, c.1886 and Woman at her Bath, c.1886 are private places made public by the artist. At others times the viewer can be intrigued or even curious by who the person is who lives in this place.
•Other artists paint inside places with the people who live there to show them in their private environment. Look at French artist Henri Matisse’ paintings The Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908 and Interior with an Etruscan Vase (Intérieur au vase étrusque), 1940 and David Hockney’s Beverly Hills Housewife, 1966 and Shirley Goldfarb & Gregory Masurovsky, 1974.
•Australian artist John Brack in his work Inside and outside (The shop window) 1972 shows us a more public view of an inside place as we look inside through the shop window.
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