JASPER JOHNNUMBERS IN COLORS

• Encaustic and Newspaper on Canvas

• 1958 - 1959

DESCRIPTION Numbers in Colors by Jasper Johns has a wonderful

irregular pattern. As you can see in the artwork, it’s numbers in colors.

Which it is colorful numbers. This is something you would put in a math class because

of the numbers. It has a mixture of warm and cool colors like: yellow,

blue, red and orange. The numbers have an irregular pattern, so they are

scattered around, all over the place. It looks like it has a rough texture, and he also looks like

he just threw a big pile of wax on top. There is no space on it, all the numbers take up all the

space.

ANALYSIS In Jasper Johns’ painting “Numbers in Colors” it

has no focal point because everything is the same, nothing caught my eyes.

There is a balance in colors; it has about the same amount of colors for each. Also, the painting is asymmetrical.

The proportions look even because each number is a rectangle.

There is no pattern in in the numbers or colors. My eyes move to the blue on the paper. There is nothing that adds variety just the color

and numbers.

INTERPRETATION• Jasper John uses numbers as his symbol; I

honestly believe he was a fan of math• He was trying to let the viewer see them in

numerical order• The artwork looks like a number chart in my

kindergarten class.• It reminds me of a calendar because of the rows

and columns. Also, in other classes we take we have to learn how to count.

JUDGMENT• Johns’ painting is a success because it draws your

attention, and the warm and cool colors are well mixed together.

• It is very unique because most artist’s would never think about doing artwork with numbers.

• There needs to be no improvement because the visual appearance is amazing and the texture is

well brought to the table.