This isn't a Jasper Johns "numbers" work, but it is the Jasper Johns in the soon-to-be-auctioned collection. It's called "Map":
September 23, 2022
"I’m attracted to things like pointillism or a Jasper Johns ‘numbers’ work because they come out of breaking something down into its components, like bytes or numbers..."
Said the late Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, quoted in "Opening Paul Allen’s Treasure Chest/It’s been a closely guarded secret which masterworks in the Microsoft co-founder’s collection will be auctioned at Christie’s in November. Here, highlights of a billionaire’s bounty" (NYT).
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Interesting observation by Allen about components...
I think this is a male trait; breaking things down into little pieces.
Not a very good composition of Rhode Island…
'Not a very good composition of Rhode Island…'
It's not too bad.
If you look closely you can see the no-blacks-allowed private beach club where Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and his family hang out.
Maybe that's a bit too critical. I'm being told that the waiters, landscapers, and maintenance crew are 95% black and brown...
I think this is a male trait; breaking things down into little pieces.
Left brain. For a very detailed explanation see The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist.
Looks like it's worth at least a thousand bazillion.
---I think this is a male trait; breaking things down into little pieces. [JoeSmith]
Get off rh's lawn right now!
How big is it? If it is 2 feet by 3 feet, it is amaturish finger painting. If it is the size of a room wall, finest if art.
Paul Allen and Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon overlapped by almost two decades. Here's hoping he enjoyed that novel about breaking things down into bits.
Uggg-leee. I'd pay $5.00 at an estate sale, just to burn it.
On the 2nd floor of the Henry Ford Centennial Library in Dearborn is a curved wall with all of these tiles and lumps of pyrite. One day I was looking at it and suddenly I saw the lower peninsula of Michigan with the pyrite lump where Detroit is. And then the rest of the map of the USA appeared to me with the UK to the right. It was a real revelation putting my left hand on the lower peninsula and seeing the map and the pyrite as the major cities.
Georgia appears to have taken over a bit of South Carolina.
"a thousand bazillion" is called a brazillion.
A female trait. In which room in his house did Paul Allen hang that thing? Or, say the painting was a museum piece for Paul Allen - in which room in any house could that picture hang? I say - the bathroom in a prison. Or the picture could be in an unfinished basement over in the corner with the stuff being accumulated for Goodwill. Another donation. I can see the skill it takes to have a harmony of black, white and grey across the surface like a cloudy snow melt day in Wisconsin. But still I say, in what room in what house do you hang a thing like that? Meaning - was it ever really art or was it a commercial proposition, A Picture By A Famous Artist To Sell For Many Dollars, from its first inception in Jasper Johns mind?
"I’m attracted to things like pointillism or a Jasper Johns ‘numbers’ work because they come out of breaking something down into its components, like bytes or numbers..."
Or maybe, like, pixels? But I guess it’s hard to sell a string of ones and zeroes for $100,000,000.
“Georgia appears to have taken over a bit of South Carolina”.
49-7. I’d say so.
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