#interior space

[arcadebroke]

sorashido_work

[miamaimania]

"Arena #4" (1990) by Mike Kelley

[docileeffects]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"The Word must be heard in the silence of the heart, the place in which it can be welcomed and given space so that it may become creative. From earliest times the advice given to those who wanted to learn the monastic way was always "to return to your own heart." This is the interior space for which there are so many different concepts: the inner cloister, the poustinia, the cave of the heart. It is simply "the place of God in us" which each of us will understand in a unique and mysterious way."

~ Esther de Waal, 'The Way of Simplicity'

[juliaknz]

SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRIL UNION CARBIDE, 1960 New York, USA Image © Ezra Stoller

[ckelly0]

In My Room. Fall 2024. Oil on canvas. 22x16".

[20thcenturyartgallery]

The Chintz Couch

Artist: Ethel Sands (American, 1873–1962)

Date: c. 1910-1911

Medium: Oil paint on board

Collection: TATE Britain

Description

Many of the interiors painted by artists of the Fitzroy Street and Camden Town circles reflected the humble and financially straitened reality of their own lives, for example Spencer Gore’s The Gas Cooker 1913 (Tate T00496). The Chintz Couch by Ethel Sands, however, depicts an unashamedly elegant and fashionable interior representing a life of leisure and material wealth. The painting shows one part of a room with a small couch covered in chintz material, standing against a wall hung with a number of framed pictures and prints, none of which has been identified. To the right of the couch there is a side table upon which is placed a tall blue glass vase holding an arrangement of white arum lilies. A band of white light streaks across the left-hand side of the couch and continues up the wall, suggesting a window with curtains partly open on one side. Sands has used a sparing, dry application of paint, and the colour of the largely uncovered board plays a major part in the colour and tonal relationships of the painting.