"Map" (1961)

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№ 27,668

In the early part of his career, Johns made a habit of introducing ready-made patterns and images—targets and flags, for example—into art. They were “things the mind already knows,” as Johns was fond of saying—the implication being that one need not look particularly hard in order to understand what’s being portrayed. That hasn’t necessarily stopped art historians from analyzing them, however, and one common interpretation is that they are “nonabstract forms of abstraction,” as Varnedoe, the former MoMA director, once wrote. In other words, they are abstractions found in daily life that have been ported over into the realm of art. Source: https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/jasper-johns-most-famous-works-1234604541/target-with-four-faces-1955/

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