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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.
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.
May 11, 2024 · Jasper Johns, American painter and graphic artist who is generally associated with the Pop art movement. Johns’s paintings often depict commonplace two-dimensional subjects such as flags, targets, maps, numbers, and letters of the alphabet, all readily recognizable and painted in simple colors.
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Summary of Jasper Johns. 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
Sep 29, 2021 · By Belinda Luscombe. September 29, 2021 7:00 AM EDT. J asper Johns, possibly America’s most famous living artist and still plying his trade at 91, launches two retrospectives on Sept. 29; one...
View all 85 artworks. Jasper Johns was born in 1930, a remarkable figure of American Abstract Expressionism and Neo-Dada. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Jasper Johns. Nan Rosenthal. Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2004. Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South Carolina. He began drawing as a young child, and from the age of five knew he wanted to be an artist.
