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A selection of readings from John Updike's art criticism

From JUST LOOKING, "An Outdoor Vermeer

Once I vowed to see every Vermeer hanging in a public museum throughout the world, and did in time stand before many of them. There are fewer than forty authenticated paintings by this Dutch master, and the best of them are perhaps the lowliest objects that exist on canvas. They tended, it seemed to me in the course of my pilgrimage, to come in pairs-for instance, the two dashing, heavily pointillist, oddly behatted female heads in the National Gallery of Art in Washington (Girl with a Red Hat, Girl with a Flute) and the two cool, bluish, satin-clad, askance-glancing young women at virginals in ...

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