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Let’s not call them scribbles… Sketches and drawings decorate the walls with ArtLab by Ambientha

By Elena Sabattini on
The Pont des Arts by Paul Signac – Courtesy of Bridgeman Images

Sketches, sketches, preparatory drawings. When a work of art passes from the artist’s head to the sheet of paper through a faster technique, in some cases more imprecise, and less “reasoned”. When mind and hand really work together for a first view of the painting that will then be created, or they create for the sole pleasure of giving birth to something beautiful, through the heart of the artist. Ambientha, in this version of the ArtLab and thanks to the images from the Bridgeman Images archive, tackles the technique of drawing, in pencil, chalk, pen, to write the “thoughts” of the greatest artists on the walls. From the supports that artists use, wood, paper, recycled materials, charcoals… to our walls.

How the greatest masterpieces are born

Freehand drawing. A pencil and a sheet of paper are enough. Easy, right? Not really, in fact today we are talking about the “scribbles” of the Italian great masters of art who then, with the appropriate modifications, became the masterpieces we know today. It is this immediacy and apparent simplicity that interests us, in order to bring it back to the walls through wallpapers that appear as sketches of a painting printed directly on the house wall.

Without any apparent study, the drawings can be preparatory and constitute the initial phase of a more complex work, or be an end in themselves, depending on the artist’s will. For these reasons, for the Ambientha ArtLab team, the sketches recall simple places, where the naturalness of an environment within reach reigns.

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The Barricade (pencil on paper) by Gustave Coubert – Courtesy of Bridgeman Images

It is a man, a revolutionary, the sketch of the famous artist Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). Father of the artistic current of Realism and irreverent thinker for some of the themes he chooses to paint, Courbet preferred the brush and his works of art to fight the reigning French bourgeoisie of the mid-nineteenth century.

With his paintings he also speaks of the least of society and with these few traits he outlines a man, we do not understand the social rank, who invokes the revolution with a bayonet in one hand and a flag in the other. He builds a concrete and determined figure that carries on his convictions also thanks to the strong strokes of the pencil on the sheet of paper.

This artist studio winks at ArtLab designers who place it in jovial and sharing environments, such as bars, restaurants, cafes. The personalisation and reading of spaces becomes the challenge for the creation of the perfect wallpaper, capable of combining the conveyed meaning and the choice of materials.

The revolutionary force of paper and pencil

Even more minimal, even more impactful. Here, too, the pencil on the paper is capable of giving life to an impulse of revolution of a horse barely held back by its master. We are talking about the sketch by Théodore Géricault (1791-1824), a French painter of Romanticism. Horses, of which he was passionate, are often the protagonists of studies and paintings, and also of his early and terrible death, so the chronicles say, after a fall from a horse.

Rearing stallion held by a nude man (pencil) by Theodore Gericault – Photo © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images

His drawings led him to elaborate the movement and suffering of bodies in what is his great masterpiece: “The Raft of the Medusa”, a story on canvas of the chronicle of a tragic shipwreck that took place in 1816. In the drawing on paper by Géricault there is already all the power of the artist’s great painting. This force is dragged by the creatives of Ambientha onto the walls with author’s wallpapers in the places that are best able to tell sports emotions, and not only, but always heart-pounding.

“Impressions” on sheets of paper… with ArtLab they are on the wall

The form is freed and the drawing becomes a pure expression of the artist’s personality, free from academic rules and dictates, as the artistic current of Impressionism teaches us. The freedom of expression without rules. It is with this freedom that Ambientha designers want to personalise domestic environments, without contour lines and paradigms.

Two Dancers Resting (charcoal on paper) by Edgar Degas – Courtesy of Bridgeman Images

Delicate, dreamy, beautiful. So are the dancers of Edgar Degas (1834-1917), even more true in this charcoal on paper, proof of the artist. The impressionist painter, although he preferred to be considered a realist, never adopted the practice of en plein air like his colleagues, but preferred to express his art with drawings of modern life, often indoors. The most famous are those of the dancers who, thanks to the artist’s hand, relive the steps on the canvas, or, as in the work we have chosen on paper. Their lightness is pleasantly perceived by us spectators so as to make every environment ethereal and relaxing. Almost magical, as if a piano were playing a romantic melody in the background.

“Art is not what you see, but what you allow others to see.” (Edgar Degas)

Now, what we see are the light and “loose” colors of the watercolor on paper in the sketch by Paul Signac (1863-1935) of the “Pont des Arts” of 1924. ArtLab has already dealt with the artist in an article dedicated to Pointillism, the current for which he is famous. But now we relive it through its landscape interpreted through a quick sketch. He too grew up in the Impressionist teaching of Claude Monet, discovers his vocation and dissects it in what will be Pointillism. From 1892 he refined his watercolor technique and his works became more colorful and with wider brushstrokes. The perception is of an environment suspended in time, with some individuals, outlined by small hatches, which stand out in the space.

This peace is re-proposed by designers for public environments, such as elegant hotel lobbies or waiting rooms, following the ideas and objectives of customers and designing the best interior art solution…

Bahama Island Light (watercolour, chinese white and pencil on blue-grey paper) by Thomas Moran – Photo © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images

With the careful and creative customisation of artistic wallpapers, Ambientha’s technicians are able to recreate the perfect setting for the location to work on. The use, in this case, of sketches, sketches, drawings full of freedom and artistic autonomy, will allow them to elaborate them to ensure that they frame the environments in the best possible way … Thus, a careful research of space and style, as well as of the work most suitable art, will make any room unique through the decoration with avant-garde and trendy coverings, but above all, of great impact and refinement.

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