In “The Painted Word” Tom Wolfe suggested this as the next logical development in art. He also imagined eventually finding in a gallery canvases blank except for a few grayish scrawl lines left by applying very hard leaded graphite pencils. He was not happy about such developments.
One morning I took my sister to the High Museum in Atlanta. She called me over, pointed to a canvas, and just said “WHAT?” It was the barely perceptible pencil scrawls.
I said, “Someone’s been reading Tom Wolfe. I’ll tell you about it over lunch.”
In “The Painted Word” Tom Wolfe suggested this as the next logical development in art. He also imagined eventually finding in a gallery canvases blank except for a few grayish scrawl lines left by applying very hard leaded graphite pencils. He was not happy about such developments.
One morning I took my sister to the High Museum in Atlanta. She called me over, pointed to a canvas, and just said “WHAT?” It was the barely perceptible pencil scrawls.
I said, “Someone’s been reading Tom Wolfe. I’ll tell you about it over lunch.”