Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johnsis an American painter and printmaker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth15 May 1930
CityAugusta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
art cages sound
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
thinking expression negative
Donald Judd spoke of a "neutral" surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used "non" or "not" - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. "Neutral" expresses an intention.
color names leaving
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.
balls use boards
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the board. Use this in a painting. - ruler on board.
artist intellectual important
Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.
garden space rocks
Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden)...
simple
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.
simplicity looks painting
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.
art childhood littles
There was very little art in my childhood.
thinking space ideas
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
drawing love-drawings enjoyed
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
trying way
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.
believe way rooms
The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.
ifs remove decided
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.