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Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955. Greenberg loved the idea of a flat canvas, because it references only its physical self. Pollock was the ‘perfect artist’ in his eyes, because he kept the canvas mainly flat - without specific subject matter or a specific narrative.  Greenberg liked the paint sloshes of Pollock because they remained to be seen as paint, and he also liked non-specific geometric shapes because they were also simple. Johns challenged this idea by keeping the canvas flat and geometric, but the shapes actually represent something here (a target). The plaster casts also include a spiritual, bodily presence to his work.

Jasper Johns, Target with Plaster Casts, 1955.

Greenberg loved the idea of a flat canvas, because it references only its physical self. Pollock was the ‘perfect artist’ in his eyes, because he kept the canvas mainly flat - without specific subject matter or a specific narrative.  Greenberg liked the paint sloshes of Pollock because they remained to be seen as paint, and he also liked non-specific geometric shapes because they were also simple. Johns challenged this idea by keeping the canvas flat and geometric, but the shapes actually represent something here (a target). The plaster casts also include a spiritual, bodily presence to his work.

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