Jasper Johns’s art has been accused of being cool, detached, aloof, and remote; nothing could be farther from the truth.
Ambiguity
In Praise of Painting’s Ambiguity, Part 3
Jasper Johns breaks down the image of a broken man.
In Praise of Painting’s Ambiguity, Part 2
Despite all the changes that Jasper Johns’s art has undergone since the mid-1950s, he has repeatedly returned to the theme of brokenness.
In Praise of Painting’s Ambiguity
The literalism of 1960s Formalism has been replaced by an insistence on the factual, which leaves little room for the imagination or for speculation.