This article examines the relationship between literature and painting in Julian Barnes collection of essays, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Different types of art and literature, as a branch of art, sometimes appear in inextricable relationships, where the boundaries of imagination and reality have various manifestations. In this collection of essays, Barnes examines the works of various artists, highlights their value, presents the role of the reader, viewer, and sitter within the text-painting interaction, where painting turns into text, and text into image.

KeywordsKeywords: art sitter viewer imagination play Olympia painting ekphrasis.

This article examines the relationship between literature and painting in Julian Barnes collection of essays, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Different types of art and literature, as a branch of art, sometimes appear in inextricable relationships, where the boundaries of imagination and reality have various manifestations. In this collection of essays, Barnes examines the works of various artists, highlights their value, presents the role of the reader, viewer, and sitter within the text-painting interaction, where painting turns into text, and text into image.

KeywordsKeywords: art sitter viewer imagination play Olympia painting ekphrasis.

This article examines the relationship between literature and painting in Julian Barnes collection of essays, Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. Different types of art and literature, as a branch of art, sometimes appear in inextricable relationships, where the boundaries of imagination and reality have various manifestations. In this collection of essays, Barnes examines the works of various artists, highlights their value, presents the role of the reader, viewer, and sitter within the text-painting interaction, where painting turns into text, and text into image.

KeywordsKeywords: art sitter viewer imagination play Olympia painting ekphrasis.