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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.
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.
Mar 20, 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.
Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics.
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.
Nov 1, 2017 · 1. 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. That gave me room to work on other levels".
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