Interestingly, after my recent post about accidental art, a fellow artist sent me an article about the work of German photographer Matthias Schaller, who has been photographing famous artists' paint palettes. I very much enjoyed the article by Allison Meier on Hyperallergic, in which she states, "Matthias Schaller has sought out these artist palettes as unintentional portraits of artist lives." She also very thoughtfully discusses how taking a look at the marks left by an artist on their paint pallet can speak to who they were as artists, their work habits and their creative process. For us the viewers, I think it offers an opportunity to imagine ourselves as the artist in front of a canvas and picture what it was like to hold that pallet, make the choices about brushes and colors, ponder the sounds of the brushes slowly or quickly working. For young artists I think that exploring these paint palettes they will be interested to see if they can make connections between the palette and the artist's finished paintings.
Matthias Schaller, Palette of Vincent van Gogh (2007), 190cm x 156cm (Musee d'Orsay, Paris)
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