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The image of the target emerges in Johns work in 1955, in paintings that incorporate frieze like arrangements of plaster casts taken from parts of the body. Target with Four Faces is one of the serie paintings and drawings of the target image from 1958 to 1961. Each of these Target paintings by Johns features a depiction of an actual target ...
works. Jasper Johns. Target with Four Faces. 1955. Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front. Overall, with box open, 33 5/8 x 26 x 3" (85.3 x 66 x 7.6 cm); canvas 26 x 26" (66 x 66 cm); box (closed) 3 3/4 x 26 x 3 1/2" (9.5 x 66 x 8.8 cm).
May 7, 2020 · Target with Four Faces exemplifies Jasper Johns’ exploration of the new possibilities for painting. Playing with subject matter, symbolism and different techniques, Johns was able to create this engaging, unsettling and thought provoking composition. In this article, Singulart discusses Johns’ aims and methods in creating of Target with ...
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Target with Four Faces. 1955 4440. 1/2" (9.5 x 66 x 8.8 cm). Gift of Mr. Cara Manes: This is Jasper Johns's Target With Four Faces from 1955. You'll immediately recognize its subject: the alternating bands of color, the concentric circles, even a bull's eye. In fact, Johns described the Target as something that “the mind already knows.”.
Sep 29, 2021 · Narrator: To make this work, Johns transposed the image of a target directly onto the canvas, and crowned it with four faces cast from life. At the time, the art world was largely dominated by abstract painters.
May 15, 2017 · “In 1955, Johns completed two works that stand alongside Flag as his most important early paintings,” writes Professor Isabelle Loring Wallace in our Jasper Johns Phaidon Focus book. “Entitled Target with Four Faces and Target with Plaster Casts they gave rise to several additional pieces in various media, all of them linked via the ...
Jasper Johns’ Target with Four Faces is a unique artwork that combines painting and sculpture. The piece features a shooting target motif painted in encaustic on canvas, crowned with four miniature plaster casts of the lower half of the same model’s face enclosed in a small wooden box with a hinged lid. The use of familiar objects like ...
