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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.
20 Απρ 2018 · A notoriously enigmatic artist, Johns has remained tight-lipped regarding any possible socio-political associations with his repeated depictions of flags, making any such interpretation the responsibility of the viewer.
Flags 1 by Jasper Johns: A masterpiece of printmaking. How the artist created a work praised as the most painterly and vivid of all his silkscreen prints — offered in our Prints & Multiples sale on 26-27 April. Artist & Makers; 20th & 21st Century Art
The American flag subject is typical of Johns’ use of quotidian imagery in the mid- to late 1950s. As he explained, the imagery derives from “things the mind already knows,” utterly familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, ale cans, and, slightly later, maps of the U.S.
As a precursor to Pop Art of the 1960s, Johns was one of the first artists to make art based on common everyday objects. By representing a flag, Johns eliminated the artist’s subjective role to choose color and forms to express an idea, and thus forces us to reconsider these things traditionally valued in art.
20 Μαρ 2013 · Curator Ian Alteveer on Jasper Johns. Explore this object: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/487065 Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.
2 Σεπ 2024 · Jasper Johns painted 'Flag' in encaustic, mixing pigment with hot wax just as the ancient Greeks did thousands of years before him.
