Gallery exhibit spotlights the artistic genius of Jasper Johns

From: Charleston Daily Mail | Date: January 30, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

WASHINGTON - It's said that there are many types of intelligence, other than the bookish kind.

Wayne Gretzky had what you could call athletic intelligence. He had a genius for understanding how bodies and objects move through space, and for controlling how he might intersect with both.

An investor such as Warren Buffett has a brain that does the same with dollars, understanding how they move through the economy and how to hip-check them into his pocket.

The great American painter Jasper Johns had what you could call pictorial intelligence - a rare genius for grasping how pictures work, and ...

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