Keeping your eyes and mind busy: Jasper Johns Ideas in Paint — dangerousminds.net

Jasper Johns is circumspect when talking about his work. He has said it does not matter what art evokes “as long as it keeps your eyes and mind busy.” You’ll come up with your own use for it. And at different times you’ll come up with different uses. Johns thinks the meaning of art is a mood created between the viewer and the work. What inspired the work or what the artist thinks it may mean is of little interest—well, as far as Johns is concerned.

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