The Saunterer and lots others share Gertrude Stein’s view:
Everybody must like something and I like seeing painted pictures. . . . There is no reason for it but for some reason, anything reproduced by paint, preferably, I may even say certainly, by oil paints on a flat surface holds my attention. . . . In short anything painted in oil anywhere on a flat surface holds my attention and I can always look at it and slowly yes slowly I will tell you about it.
(Quoted from page xv of Still Looking: Essays on American Art, by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.)
For a brief biography of Gertrude Stein, click here. For images of or relating to Gertrude Stein, click here.
For a brief biography of John Updike, click here. For images of or relating to John Updike, click here.
Everybody must like something and I like seeing painted pictures. . . . There is no reason for it but for some reason, anything reproduced by paint, preferably, I may even say certainly, by oil paints on a flat surface holds my attention. . . . In short anything painted in oil anywhere on a flat surface holds my attention and I can always look at it and slowly yes slowly I will tell you about it.
(Quoted from page xv of Still Looking: Essays on American Art, by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.)
For a brief biography of Gertrude Stein, click here. For images of or relating to Gertrude Stein, click here.
For a brief biography of John Updike, click here. For images of or relating to John Updike, click here.
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