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.