Rachel Lebowitz
From Francis Bacon’s
famously disheveled creative hive to Constantin Brancusi’s workspace, which
featured his own handmade furniture, the studios of history’s most famous
artists provide a trove of insight into their practices and personas. Whether
they ultimately become museums or are managed by foundations (like The Easton
Foundation, which is in the process of readying Louise Bourgeois’s New York
studio for public view), restoration efforts allow these spaces to be preserved
and appreciated long after an artist’s death. What follows are nine artists’
studios—in locations from Cape Town to Cornwall—that you can visit in person.
Joan Miró
MALLORCA, SPAIN
Joan Miró’s studio. Photo
by Alexandra Moss, via Flickr.
Spanish painter, sculptor,
and printmaker Miró—known for his biomorphic sculptures and abstract
compositions inspired both by the Dada scene he had been involved with in Paris
and by Japanese calligraphy—had grown up spending time in Mallorca with his
grandmother. When he relocated there permanently from Barcelona in his sixties,
he destroyed many of his previous works entirely, making way for a new phase of
creativity that having his own studio (for the first time) afforded.
The Fundació Pilar i Joan
Miró, which he established to preserve his studios, in part as inspiration to
future artists, includes not only Miró’s first studio and a museum of his
works, but also Son Boter, an 18th-century Mallorcan country estate house
behind his own home that he bought as a space to make large-scale works. Today,
its garage houses a functioning printmaking workshop, updated from Miró’s time………………….
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