Jasper Johns's 'Map', 1961

Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary American artist who primarily works in painting and printmaking. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Augusta Georgia is a city in Richmond County, Georgia, United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Printmaking is the Process of making artworks by Printing, normally on Paper. He is currently represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery

Early life

Jasper Johns's 'Flag', Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood,1954-55

Jasper Johns grew up in Allendale, South Carolina, and recounting this period in his life, he says, "In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. Allendale is a town in Allendale County, South Carolina, United States. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in. "

Johns studied at the University of South Carolina from 1947 to 1948, a total of three semesters. This article is about the University of South Carolina in Columbia ^[1] He then moved to New York City and studied briefly at Parsons School of Design in 1949. The City of New York Parsons The New School for Design (abbreviated Parsons) is a Design school founded in 1896 (see below ^[1] While in New York, Johns met Robert Rauschenberg, with whom he had a relationship,^[2] as well as Merce Cunningham and John Cage. See also Merce Cunningham (born April 16, 1919 in Centralia Washington, United States is an American Dancer and choreographer WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> John Milton Cage Jr Working together they explored the contemporary art scene, and began developing their ideas on art. In 1952 and 1953 he was stationed in Sendai, Japan during the Korean War. is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and the largest city in the Tōhoku (northeast region For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the ^[1]

In 1958, gallery owner Leo Castelli discovered Johns while visiting Robert Rauschenberg's studio. Leo Castelli (born Leo Krauss on September 4, 1907, at Trieste, of Italian and Austro-Hungarian Jewish origin &ndash died August 21 ^[1]

Johns currently lives in Sharon, Connecticut. Sharon is a town located in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in the northwest corner of the state

Work

Detail of Flag (1954-55). Museum of Modern Art, New York City. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth The City of New York This image illustrates Johns' early technique of painting with thick, dripping encaustic over a collage made from found materials such as newspaper. This rough construction is rarely evident in reproductions of the work as a whole.

He is best known for his painting Flag (1954-55), which he painted after having a dream of the American flag. A flag is a piece of Cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, generally used Symbolically for signaling or identification Flags of the United States The Flag of the United States of America consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of Red (top and bottom alternating His work is often described as a 'Neo-Dadaist', as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture. Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to the Visual arts describing artwork that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork Pop Art is a visual Art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. Still, many compilations on pop art include Jasper Johns as a pop artist because of his artistic use of classical iconography.

Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers. Johns' treatment of the surface is often lush and painterly; he is famous for incorporating such media as Encaustic (wax-based paint), and plaster relief in his paintings. Johns played with and presented opposites, contradictions, paradoxes, and ironies, much like Marcel Duchamp (who was associated with the Dada movement). A paradox is a true statement or group of statements that leads to a Contradiction or a situation which defies intuition; or inversely Marcel Duchamp (maʀsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃ (28 July 1887 &ndash 2 October 1968 was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist For other meanings see Dada (disambiguation DaDa is a Concept album by Alice Cooper, released Johns also produces intaglio prints, sculptures and lithographs with similar motifs. Intaglio (pronounced in-TAL-yo ɪn'tælɪəʊ is a family of Printmaking techniques in which the image is incised into a surface known as the matrix or plate Lithography is a method for Printing using a plate or stone with a completely smooth surface

Johns' breakthrough move, which was to inform much later work by others, was to appropriate popular iconography for painting, thus allowing a set of familiar associations to answer the need for subject. Though the Abstract Expressionists disdained subject matter, in the end it could be said that they simply changed subjects. Abstract expressionism was an American post– World War II Art movement. Johns neutralized the subject, so that something like pure paint--painted surface--could declare itself. For twenty years after Johns painted "Flag," the surface--in Andy Warhol's silkscreens or Robert Irwin's illuminated ambiances--could suffice. For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol Robert Irwin may be Robert Irwin (artist, American Robert Graham Irwin, British historian & novelist Robert Irwin (author

In contrast to the concept of macho 'artist hero' as ascribed to Abstract Expressionist figures such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, whose paintings are fully indexical (that is, standing effectively as an all-over canvas signature), "Neo-Dadaists" like Johns and Robert Rauschenberg seem preoccupied with a lessening of the reliance of their art on indexical qualities, seeking instead to create meaning solely through the use of conventional symbols, painted indexically in what some have interpreted as a rebuttal of the hallowed individuality of the Abstract Expressionists. Abstract expressionism was an American post– World War II Art movement. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28 1912 &ndash August 11 1956 was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement Willem de Kooning (April 24 1904 – March 19 1997 was an Abstract expressionist painter born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands In Linguistics and in Philosophy of language, an indexical behavior or utterance symbolically points to (or indicates) some state of affairs Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to the Visual arts describing artwork that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork The musical instrument is spelled Cymbal. A symbol is something --- such as an object, Picture, written word a sound a piece There is also the issue of symbols existing outside of any referential context; Johns' flag, for instance, is primarily a visual object, divorced from its symbolic connotations and reduced to something in-itself.

In 1998, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought Johns' White Flag. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, While the Met would not disclose what it paid, "experts estimate [the painting's] value at more than $20 million. "^[3]

In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel Investment Group) bought Johns' False Start for $80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist. A hedge fund is a private Investment fund open to a limited range of investors which is permitted by regulators to undertake a wider range of activities than other investment Citadel Investment Group is a Hedge fund management firm based in Chicago, Illinois, founded by billionaire trader Kenneth C ^[4]

The National Gallery of Art acquired about 1,700 of Johns’ proofs in 2007. This article is about the National Gallery of the United States for other National Galleries see National Gallery. This made the gallery home to the largest amount of Jasper Johns’ works. The exhibition showed works from many points in Johns’ career including recent proofs of his prints. ^[5]

Other work

Numbers by Jasper Johns at the New York State Theater. The New York State Theater (to be renamed in 2008 the David H

• White Flag (1955)^[6]
• False Start (1959)
• Study for Skin (1962)
• Figure Five (1963-64)
• Seasons (1986)
• Three Flags (1958)

In the spring of 2008, a ten-year retrospective of Johns' drawings was mounted at New York City's Matthew Marks Gallery. Matthew Marks is an art gallery located in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea.

Jasper Johns once guest-starred on The Simpsons as himself. In the episode "Mom and Pop Art", Homer Simpson accidentally becomes an artist, and Johns attends one of his exhibitions. " Mom and Pop Art " is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons ' tenth season. Homer Jay Simpson is a main fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and father of the eponymous family. Johns is portrayed as a kleptomaniac, stealing items of food, lightbulbs, a motor boat, and a painting Marge is working on. Kleptomania ( Greek: κλέπτειν, kleptein "to steal" μανία, " Mania " is the condition of not being able Marjorie "Marge" Simpson (née Bouvier) is a Fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons

References

• Busch, Julia M. , A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960's (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) ISBN 0-87982-007-1

External links

• Jasper Johns at the Matthew Marks Gallery
• VAGA - To clear rights to reproduce works by Johns
• Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
• States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art
• Jasper Johns (born 1930) Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Jasper Johns bio at artchive.com
• Flag at the Museum of Modern Art
• White Flag at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• False Start Act out a Jasper Johns painting. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.
• Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965, Kunstmuseum Basel. Video at VernissageTV.
• Lovable in Parts The New York Review of Books article by Richard Dorment on Jasper Johns; Gray, an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semimonthly Magazine on Literature, Culture, and current