Jasper Johns, of recent AS first semester final exam prompt celebrity, received the Medal of Freedom tonight from President Obama. There have only been 5 visual artists who have received the honor- Rockwell, O’Keefe, Wyeth, de Kooning and Calder. Johns said, “My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, and seeing and believing.” It was a good day for the arts.
Interesting! A good question that we have discussed in AS though, is seeing knowing? I think not. For example the picture "The Soiling of Old Glory" that we studied last semster. What you see, was not the truth. What you see is what you will say...and probably what you believe. But then that begs the question, how do you define truth?
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