Blog assignment 6 "Jasper Johns"

Diver by Jasper Johns. Since the marks are of Jasper Johns's feet and hands, it could be thought to be a kind of self-portrait. We think that the way in which he got his image onto the paper was to grease the hands and feet, imprint them, and then sprinkle charcoal on top. It has a very strange emotional tone and part of this, I think, is because of the gray, and the sense of internal light which comes up from the brown paper and the white chalk, the little touches of red and blue paint. Charcoal, pastel, and watercolor on paper mounted on canvas, two panels.