Townsend, Alair
Of the four earliest icons (targets, flags, numbers, and maps) that occupy his work, the target is Johns’ most abstract image. Representing something anonymous and universal, the familiar target appears in Johns’ work until 1961. His first two paintings of the target image, Target with Plas...
Jasper Johns American • 1930 Jasper Johns is a painter and printmaker who holds a foundational place in twentieth century art history. Quoting the evocative gestural brushstroke of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns represented common objects such as flags, targets, masks, maps and numbers: He...
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