AsubstantialnewmonographononeofAmerica’smostsignificantartists,showcasinghispaintingsfromtheearly1980stothepresent Inthelate1970s,aftertheartist’sexplosivePopArtbeginningsandaperiodofabstraction,representationalobjectsmadetheirwaybackintoJasperJohns’work.Supportedbytheartist’swordsandpreviousscholarship,JasperJohnsisth...
In 1958, at Jasper Johns first solo exhibition in New York City, Jasper Johns dazzled the art world with startlingly beautiful paintings and drawings of unexpectedly mundane images: targets, numerals, and the American flag. His work emerged at a time when Abstract Expressionism still held sway a...
Rothfuss’ conceptual framework for the exhibition is the translation of media, including the translation of his paintings into print and sculptural works. As a whole, the exhibition outlines Johns’ practice of taking images—either from popular culture, his own earlier works, or, later in his ...
Johns rocked the art world in the 1950s with his American Flag paintings. The first Flag painting, done in 1954, is in the permanent collection of MoMA. In 1980 the Whitney Museum paid $1 million for Three Flags, 1958, then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist...
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Because of the emphasis on memory in these Souvenir paintings, it is possible that Johns intended the flashlight--a contemporary version of the candle--to be interpreted, like the candles in vanitas still lifes, as symbols of transience. (R. Bernstein, op. cit., p. 116) The mirror, as ...
His images depict commonplace two-dimensional objects (e.g., flags, maps, targets, numbers, letters of the alphabet) in simple colors. His banal subject matter and rejection of emotional expression departed radically from the Abstract Expressionism that then dominated the U.S. art scene. Among ...
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To learn more about Jasper Johns, review the corresponding lesson called Jasper Johns: Biography, Paintings & Facts. This lesson covers the following topics: Johns' early life Action Painting Interpretations of Johns' art American Flag,Map,andTarget with Four Faces ...