OUDENBURG.- Jasper Johns has been using his own handprint as an element in his paintings, drawings, and prints for close to 50 years. This exhibition presents many of his lithographs and intaglios that demonstrate not only the wide variety of effects he has achieved through this deceptively simple device but his mastery of printmaking techniques. The first time Johns used his hands as a component of a work was in 1962, in four Study for Skin drawings. These were made by the artist covering his face and hands in oil and imprinting them on paper. Since these drawings were studies for a “rolled-out” sculpture of a head, this first manifestation of the artist’s hands can be seen as incidental. However, later that year, handprints appeared as focal points in several important paintings, including Diver, Land’s End, and Periscope (Hart Crane), as well as in large drawings. Revisiting established subject matter is a hallmark of John’s sensibility: I like to