These works are best experienced in person. The scale, texture — it all plays a role. It helps to imagine the context, to imagine what if was like for these wor

These works are best experienced in person. The scale, texture — it all plays a role. It helps to imagine the context, to imagine what if was like for these works to emerge when they did. But, I think Jasper Johns can definitely be appreciated without any of that — just standing in front of one of his works, taking it in like it’s a landscape; just something to experience.