art by example

Jasper Johns - "The Critic Smiles" 1969


My love of Jasper Johns is this...
his work is always more than the sum of it’s parts.


"The Critic Smiles", is a novel in a novel… and again.
We write, we fight and kill, we squander, aspire, rapture and walk the inferno to explain, express, define… love. (more than the sum of it’s parts) And yet, and in all, we have failed. All the art in the world does not define love. So, how is it that we always know when we are in love? In a truth, we always do. I can not tell you or define for you, a master’s work… but I know when I see or feel or touch or hear one.
"The Critic Smiles", always makes me smile for the master… artist Jasper Johns.

all the best,
mark fulwider