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Title: JASPER JOHNS


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JASPER JOHNS
  • http//www.greenfield-sanders.com/bottom_art.html

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Background
  • Born in Augusta, Georgia in 1930
  • Grew up wanting to be an artist
  • Was drafted and stationed in Japan
  • Returned to study at the University of South
    Carolina, Columbia between 1949-51
  • From 1952-58 worked in NY bookshop and as a
    commercial artist

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  • In New York, met and was influenced by John Cage
    (composer), Merce Cunningham (choreographer), and
    Robert Rauschenberg.
  • Visited Philadelphia to see work by Duchamp
  • Inspired by a dream to paint the flag

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Early Work
  • we see that it is not a painting of a flag. The
    roles are reversed beginning with the flag, a
    painting was made - David Sylvester, "About
    Modern Art"

Flag, 1954
http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/ite
m?id12337subsubmagnify
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White Flag, 1955
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns
  • In the stars it's allegro vivace, agitated
    movement, flickering and exploding. In the
    stripes it's andante. - David Sylvester, "About
    Modern Art"

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  • Johns' early work combined a serious concern for
    the craft of painting with an everyday, almost
    absurd, subject matter. The meaning of the
    painting could be found in the painting process
    itself. It was a new experience for gallery goers
    to find paintings solely of such things as flags
    and numbers.
  • -pbs

http//www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/j
ohns_j.html
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  • -In 1958, gallery owner Leo Castelli offered
    Johns a show
  • -At that first exhibition, the Museum of Modern
    Art purchased three pieces,

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  • Target with Plaster Casts, 1955
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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  • Book, 1957, (encaustic on book)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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  • Numbers in Color,
  • 1958-59
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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False Start, 1959, (oil on canvas)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-hin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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  • Shade, 1959, (encaustic on canvas with objects)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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  • Out the Window, 1959,
  • (encaustic collage)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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Painted Bronze (Ale Cans), 1960
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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Map, 1961
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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  • Device, 1961-62
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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Diver, 1963, (charcoal and pastel on paper)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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Filed Painting, 1963-64, (oil on canvas)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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According to What, 1964, (oil on canvas)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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Watchman, 1964, (oil on canvas with objects)
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns

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Two Maps, 1966 Lithograph printed in gray on
black Fabriano paper
Untitled, 1977Screenprint
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  • He was the artistic advisor for the composer John
    Cage and Merce Cunninghams Dance Company until
    1972
  • To date Johns has produced over 400 prints in
    lithography, silkscreen, and intaglio.
  • In 1996, the Museum of Modern Art in New York
    gave a major retrospective to Johns it traveled
    to three other museums

Photo by Jack Spear http//www.sfmoma.org/exhibi
tions/exhib_detail/99_exhib_jasper_johns.html
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References
  • http//www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/johns_jasper.
    html
  • http//www.fi.muni.cz/toms/PopArt/Biographies/joh
    ns.html
  • http//www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/sea
    rch?simplesearchjasperjohns
  • http//www.artchive.com/artchive/J/johnsbio.html
  • http//www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/j
    ohns_j.html
  • http//www.hofstra.edu/COM/Museum/museum_collectio
    n_70_134.cfm
  • http//apm-cbm.hypermart.net/Artists/Biograpies/Jo
    hns.html
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