It’s late at night, and I should be sleeping. Instead, I’m sitting at my computer, staring at art. So why not make the best of it? This week, let’s all write about sleep.
As for tonight, I’ll consider my sleep-art collecting to be a little precursor to the real thing. Look out, bed, here I come.
Egon Schiele, Sleeping Figure with Blanket, 1910. Watercolor and charcoal on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Garden of Selves, 2001. Photograph. . www.parkeharrison.com
Andrew Wyeth, Marriage, 1993. Tempera on panel. Private collection.
I’m sitting in a chair right now. Chances are, you are too. Seem like a mundane thing to write about? Don’t you worry, chairs can spark some creative turns, believe you me. Here are a few examples.
Egon Schiele, Art Cannot be Modern: Art is Eternal, 1912. Gouache, watercolor, and pencil. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna Austria.
Morrisania, Desk and empty chair. Date unknown. Photograph. New York Public Library Archives.
Wang Huaiqing, Half Table, Half Chair, 1992. Oil on canvas.
