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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, 1954–55. During the ’50s, Abstract Expressionism was still considered the paragon of art in New York. Going gallery to gallery, one might see numerous exhibitions featuring all-over abstractions, each with a particular style that corresponded to a certain artist (drips of paint for Jackson Pollock, heavy black forms for Franz Kline, fields of saturated color for Mark Rothko, and so on).
- Target with Four Faces, 1955. This painting pairs a target with a sculptural element at its top: four niches, each with a hinged door that can be opened and closed, each containing an identical cast of the same model’s face, from just below the eyes down.
- Map, 1961. In the early part of his career, Johns made a habit of introducing ready-made patterns and images—targets and flags, for example—into art. They were “things the mind already knows,” as Johns was fond of saying—the implication being that one need not look particularly hard in order to understand what’s being portrayed.
- Usuyuki, 1982. Starting in the ’70s, Johns began making use of two mystifying patterns that had highly specific reference points. One, featuring an array of interlocking forms with slight points in places, alluded to flagstones he had spotted on a wall while passing through Harlem in a car.
Feb 18, 2019 · There is the Jasper Johns who spoke in the 1970s about wanting to sell a painting for $1 million, a figure then unheard-of for a living artist (in 2014, a flag painting sold for $36 million...
- M.H. Miller
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.
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.
Aug 8, 2020 · American artist Jasper Johns has left no medium untouched throughout his pursuit of painterly perfection. From subverting Abstract Expressionism to pioneering a Neo-Dada resurgence in New York City, he’s now best recognized for his depictions of ordinary household objects like the U.S. flag.
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March 21, 2014– August 31, 2014. In the 1950s and 1960s, pop art offered a stark contrast to abstract expressionism, then the dominant movement in American art.
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