He used to put on his pin-striped suit and bowler hat every morning , kiss his wife goodbye and walk around the block a few times before arriving back at home , ready for a productive day at the easel .
Then in the 40s and 50s he himself , in the south of france , decisively broke away from the easel tradition , indeed from conventional painting , by concentrating on large-scale paper cut outs .
而他自己,在法国南部,果断的离开传统的画架,打破了绘画痼习,集中注意力在大型剪纸绘画上。
His studio was a smallish upstairs bedroom ; it didn 't even have an easel .
他把画室安排在楼上一间不大的卧房,其间甚至连一个画架都不曾摆放。
Just stepping away from the easel was enough to get me to relax , and what I saw before me was genius .
只是稍稍远离画架,就足以让我放松,而呈现在我眼前的,则是一幅天才之作。
Call mozart or picasso prodigies if you like but they spent more hours at the piano and the easel than their competitors did .
Neither have I caught them knitting or daubing oil paints on to an easel , though that may be partly because hardly anyone does such things at home either .