Sunday, September 26, 2010

Jasper Johns

"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another."- Jasper Johns

Jasper John emerged in the art scene in the last 1950’s with a new type or art work. To me, Jasper Johns painting Thee Flags represents the artists’ role of number four by reveling hidden truths and personal feelings. In this painting it shows the flag getting smaller and smaller, thus making the flag appear weak to its country. His ideas were that the flag is only getting “seen but not looked at". (picture from: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_o93AaY0GzH4/TIDfIoYXCKI/AAAAAAAAB7A/2WqAt0XJzhA/s1600/Three+Flags+(1958)+by+Jasper+Johns.jpg)




Another art piece that Jasper Johns did is Flag. This art piece was made out of newspaper scraps painted over multiple times. I believe this represents our culture as Americans. Again, we are seeing the painting (or in this case the newspaper) but we are not actually looking at it. I think Jasper Johns art makes people actually think and question what they are seeing instead of just accepting the sight of an art piece, or maybe even the world.

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