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.