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- Jasper Johns's playful, enigmatic paintings interrogate the very ways in which we see and interpret the world. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Johns deliberately avoided art cut off from everyday life and made common signs, such as flags and targets, the subject of his work.
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Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development of American postwar art, he has been variously associated with abstract expressionism , Neo-Dada , and pop art movements.
- Flag, 1958. Jasper Johns first painted the American flag in 1954–1955 aged 24, and it's been a frequently recurring motif in his practice ever since. For Johns, “using the flag took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it.
- Target, 1961. Along with flags, targets are another of Johns's striking motifs from his early career. Associated with repetition – reciting the national anthem, practicing firing skills – these commonplace items were ingrained in mid-century American life.
- Painted Bronze, 1960. With Johns's early shows at Leo Castelli's gallery proving very commercially successful, it’s claimed fellow artist Willem de Kooning quipped of the gallerist: “you could give that son of a bitch two beer cans and he could sell them”.
- Painting with Two Balls, 1960. “At once, Johns extinguished speculation about the meaning of individual paintings and directed attention to them as objects among other objects”, wrote the critic Harold Rosenberg.
Jasper Johns's playful, enigmatic paintings interrogate the very ways in which we see and interpret the world. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Johns deliberately avoided art cut off from everyday life and made common signs, such as flags and targets, the subject of his work.
- American
- May 15, 1930
- Augusta, Georgia
Dec 14, 2017 · This past fall, the 87-year-old American artist Jasper Johns revealed plans to turn his 170-acre retreat in rural Sharon, Connecticut, into an artists’ residence upon his death. Recognized as one of America’s finest painters and printmakers, Johns intends to create an endowment that will allow the retreat to welcome not only visual artists ...
Sep 29, 2021 · Johns, possibly America’s most famous living artist and still plying his trade at 91, spoke to TIME about two retrospective shows and whether good art can be understood.
Aug 20, 2017 · Jasper Johns emerged onto the American art scene in the 1950s. His densely textured paintings of recognisable objects like flags, targets, maps and numbers marked a significant shift away from Abstract Expressionism , which was then the major artistic movement in New York.
5 days ago · Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.) is an American painter and graphic artist who is generally associated with the Pop art movement. Johns studied briefly (1947–48) at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and then moved to New York City to pursue a career as an artist.
