![]() This makes the target a true visual display - it has no the contrasting circles of the target are meant to aid distant vision the target is something to see clearly, to aim at. The target also focuses attention on the theme of viewing. ![]() The colors of the flag are fixed in the target, they need only be contrasting. ![]() An American flag is always the same while a target can be any number of things - all that unites targets is a common format of concentric circles. Johns' targets ideas suggested by the early flags, but more abstractly. But the optical nature of the concentric bands can also be understood to figureĭistraction rather than focus, something that is also suggested by the mechanical action of a rotating compass by which the image of a target is produced. Targets imply, or are instruments of, seeing across space (and seeing as an act of potential violence). Which are also familiar images from this period of the artist's career, the flat target is simultaneously representational and abstract (a number or a flag can never be divorced from its status as a familiar sign). Each of these Target paintings by Johns features a depiction of an actual target that is, for all practical purposes, utterly interchangeable with the real thing. Target with Four Faces is one of the serie paintings and drawings of ![]() The image of the target emerges in Johns work in 1955, in paintings that incorporate frieze like arrangements of plaster casts taken from parts of the body. ![]()
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