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Jasper Johns
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When have you seen
numbers today?
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How can
numbers be
art? American
artist, Jasper
Johns believes
that even
though we use
numbers every
day, we don’t
really think
about them.
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Jasper Johns
wanted us to
look at their
details and see
them in a new
way, as art! So,
he made
paintings of
them.
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Jasper did the same with other objects,
such as maps and flags.
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Jasper said that
we see flags,
maps, and
numbers and
letters all the time,
but we never
really think about
them.
He decided he was going to use
them in his paintings so that
people could enjoy their shapes.
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That’s just what he did.
Everyday objects,
especially things that are
flat, like numbers and
flags, became his
subjects.
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John’s work influenced
many other artists and a
new art form called Pop
Art. This is art in which
everyday objects, such
as hamburgers, soup
cans and comic strips
are used as subjects.
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Can you turn
something ordinary
into something
extraordinary?