A Century of the Artist’s Studio. Glimpses of the “coalface” at latest Whitechapel Gallery exhibition
By James Brewer
Highly controlled chaos: that was how the painter Francis Bacon, known for his distorted and nightmarish figurations of man and animal on the canvas, viewed his studio. Amid seeming disorganisation, the implication is: “It might look a mess, but I know I can find anything I want.” It is a natural milieu for artists with their sheaves of brushes, panoply of...