Man in een schildersatelier c. 1900 - 1910

This photographic print titled 'Man in een schildersatelier’ by G. Hidderley gives us a peek into the artist's studio, all in shades of gray. The painting on the easel shows a figure huddled against a wooden fence or wall. I imagine the artist, Hidderley, circling, approaching the canvas, then stepping away. Was he trying to capture a likeness, or an emotion? Maybe a fleeting moment of human solitude. The artist in the foreground with his palette seems pensive, right? He's sitting, yet his mind is in motion, grappling with the next stroke. The other painting is blank, a question mark hanging in the air, waiting for its turn. We're all standing on the shoulders of those who came before, aren't we? Each artist picks up the thread of the conversation, and adds their own voice. Every painting is part of this never-ending back-and-forth, a dance of looking, feeling, and making.