ART 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lower Manhattan, Reclining Buddha, Regional Policy Of The European Union
Document Summary
In jasper johns"s flag from 1954-55, the artist takes a familiar image (the american flag) and forces us to examine it more closely to experience this patriotic symbol in a new way. According to johns, we see the flag, but we don"t really know it . Q: how does johns present us with an opportunity to look closely at a familiar image: since he didn"t have to design the image, johns could focus on other aspects, like the materiality of the object. Johns applied painted strips of newspaper on canvas; notice the flag has an unexpected bumpy texture: people were disturbed by the pieces of newspaper visible beneath the surface. Defining the creative process and the role of the artist. The creative and critical thinking process is inherent in every discipline, leading to scientific discovery, breakthroughs in medicine and engineering, etc. Artists create visual records i. e. , portraiture preserves the physical likeness of a human being.
