Untitled (People Looking Up)
Saul Steinberg
1949
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, ruled in graphite, on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 36.8 × 58.8 cm (14 1/2 × 23 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
pen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Steinberg was an acute observer of The world, and he often employed unusual perspectives, such as in this drawing, which presents a bird’s-eye view. The artist’s characteristic visual wit is also expressed in the figure’s odd body shapes (a product of the strange point of view), and how the subjects scrupulously inspect us as we gaze at them.
