Studio visits, in words and images

Abstract

During interwar period and especially in ‘30s, reports of visit to the artists in their studios by journalists were more and more published in newspapers or magazines (not militant nor specialistic). The readers of this kind of periodicals appreciated these raids according to a gaze apparently naïve: they liked that the writer assumed the same curious and vaguely skeptical point of view of the reader: he had the privilege to enter in the atelier of the main important, discussed and awarded Italian artists at the great exhibition (Casorati, Martini, and De Pisis).
The essay presented a series of ateliers of artists throughout reports and photographs, that pointed out several events: the artist at work or sitting; painting and sculpture displayed or piled up in the studio; the model sitting in front of the artist or of the artwork, or at rest.