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Ads by Google Related Topics Jasper Johns John Milton John Locke      Jasper Johns - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johns also produces intaglio prints, sculptures and lithographs with similar motifs. This was self-referential to Johns's art career,as most of his artwork came from everyday household objects. This image illustrates Johns' early technique of painting with thick, dripping encaustic over a collage made from found materials such as newspaper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Johns   (293 words)      Split decisions: Jasper Johns in retrospect. (painter) - Artforum International - HighBeam Research Johns is an artist who became known for his skill in using art to create powerful ideological shifts. Johns' early paintings signal the moment when art's long-established European and aristocratic cultural model finally began to give way, in favor of one that could be persuasively described as distinctly American. More than two years passed between the dream Johns is said to have had that gave him the idea to paint Flag and the first showing of the famous encaustic collage, in a group exhibition at Castelli at the end of the 1957 season. http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:18749506&refid=holomed_1   (3719 words)      SFMOMA Exhibitions Jasper Johns Born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1930, Jasper Johns is generally credited as a key figure in shifting American art away from Abstract Expressionism and toward the era of Pop art with his first solo exhibition in 1958. Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper features new artwork by Jasper Johns, one of the most influential artists of the last fifty years, introducing the first substantial body of work that the artist has created since 1997. Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper is part of the Museum's New Work series, which features recent or commissioned work by both younger and established artists and is supported by the Collectors Forum of SFMOMA. http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail/99_exhib_jasper_johns.html   (606 words)      American Masters . Jasper Johns PBS In New York, Johns met a number of other artists including the composer John Cage, the choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the painter Robert Rauschenberg. Johns' paintings of targets, maps, invited both the wrath and praise of critics. Collaboration was an important part in advancing Johns' own art, and he worked regularly with a number of artists including Robert Morris, Andy Warhol, and Bruce Naumann. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/johns_j.html   (877 words)      Jasper Johns - AMAM Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1930, and attended art school for such a brief time that he is generally considered a self-taught artist. As his work became more personalized, Johns became less identified with other artists or movements such as or and his work was seen as more self-referential. In 1954 Johns painted his first American flag, the first in a series of iconic and impersonal paintings that also included alphabets and targets. http://www.oberlin.edu/allenart/collection/johns_jasper.html   (1032 words)      About Jasper Johns Abbeville Press What Johns and Rauschenberg had done was to make possible the use in art of materials and objects from outside the art world--sometimes from popular culture, sometimes from a general culture--and mediated them in such a way that art became implicit in them. Jasper Johns's art is treacherously difficult to write about. Johns asks us to recognize the exactitude of the language through the (incomplete) information it conveys: these are indeed painted bronzes, but when calling the works by name rather than looking at them we need to know the brand name to tell them apart. http://www.abbeville.com/Products/Excerpt/1558592520Excerpt.htm   (3107 words)      Jasper Johns - Biography Johns is also regarded as one of the greatest graphic artists of this century, and his lithographs, screenprints, and etchings have been exhibited widely. Johns' painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking are all closely related. Johns emerged as a notable artist in the 1950s in the wake of the intensely personal, gestural painting of the abstract expressionists. http://www.bonus.com/contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?65280   (327 words)      Jasper Johns Johns has achieved a commanding position in 20th century American art, and, along with Picasso, has contributed immeasurably to the medium of printmaking and its importance in the history of art. The quotidian nature of his subject matter broke with contemporary subjects and focused on the importance of works on paper that echoed the imagery and themes of his paintings; it was the catalyst for a new "peintre-graveuer" period of American art. Among the world's most influential American artists of the post World War II period, Jasper Johns (1930-) is also widely regarded as one of the greatest printmakers of our time. http://www.annalies.com/New_Works/Jasper_Johns/jasper_johns.html   (365 words)      MoMA.org Exhibitions 1996 Jasper Johns: a retrospective The booklet accompanying Jasper Johns: Process and Printmaking was made possible by grants from The Contemporary Arts Council and The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, The Associates of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, and Arthur and Susan Fleischer, Jr. Johns also frequently borrows images from other artists, which, ironically, only underscores the originality of his own vision. The life's work of an artist who has had a profound influence on American art was featured in this, the first full retrospective of Jasper Johns's work since 1977. http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1996/johns   (410 words)      Art for Amnesty :: Amnesty International :: Jasper Johns Johns drew and painted all through his childhood, though mostly alone, rarely seeing work of other artists. In 1954, Jasper Johns destroyed all his art. By 1955 Johns was living and working in New York; there he met composer John Cage whose acceptance of ‘things as they are’ influenced Johns’ own attitude toward life. http://www.artforamnesty.org/view_artist.php?id=47   (208 words)      St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Jasper Johns In 1958, Johns had his first solo exhibition at the Castelli gallery; it was an unqualified critical success for both artist and dealer, establishing both of their reputations. Johns painted objects that were familiar to both him and his audience. Signaling the end of Abstract Expressionism, Jasper Johns's paintings, prints, and sculptures helped usher in the era of American Pop Art in the late 1950s; additionally, his artwork became instrumental to the tenets of minimalism and conceptual art. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200601   (435 words)      Jasper Johns Johns' art has long been featured at galleries and museums; the Guggenheim has announced that its first exhibit in its newly-reconstructed exhibition spaces will be a James Rosenquist Retrospective in Fall 2002. Jasper Johns: Writings, Sketchbook Notes, Interviews (NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996); David Whitney, Jasper Johns (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, 1978); David Whitney, with David White Jasper Johns (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978); John Yau, The United States of Jasper Johns (Cambridge: Zoland Books, 1996). Jasper Johns: A Retrospective (NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996); Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoet, eds. http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Johns.html   (1142 words)      ArtandCulture Artist: Jasper Johns Credited as a founding father of Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, Jasper Johns was one of the first painters to use everyday objects and commonplace images in his art, thus paving the way for artists like Warhol and Oldenburg. The Johns exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art features over 29 works from his personal collection. Because his signature symbol paintings stress the idea behind the work rather than his manipulation of materials, Johns is often identified as Neo-Dada and linked to the work of Duchamp. http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=82   (371 words)      Jasper Johns (born 1930) Special Topics Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art Throughout his career, Johns has included in most of his art certain marks and shapes that clearly display their derivation from factual, unimagined things in the world, including handprints and footprints, casts of parts of the body, or stamps made from objects found in his studio, such as the rim of a tin can. Johns' early mature work, of the mid- to late 1950s, invented a new style that helped to engender a number of subsequent art movements, among them Pop, This is partly because, while Johns' painting extended the allover compositional techniques of Abstract Expressionism, his use of these techniques stresses conscious control rather than spontaneity. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/john/hd_john.htm   (770 words)      Johns, Jasper. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Johns based his painting technique on the informal brushwork and texture of abstract expressionism, attaching literal elements such as rulers and brooms to the canvas. Augusta, Ga. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp in the mid-1950s, Johns attempted to transform common objects into art by placing them in an art context. His flags and target images executed from 1954 to 1959 heralded the pop art movement. http://www2.bartleby.com/65/jo/Johns-Ja.html   (172 words)      Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades is showing at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC from June 3 through October 7, 2001. As "one of the greatest printmakers of our time", Jasper Johns is also well known for his paintings and sculpture. Through the 1960s, Johns continued to focus on using objects in his art and in 1960 cast a sculpture of two Ballantine Ale cans entitled "Painted Bronze" and also began to attach real objects to his canvases. http://www.museumnetwork.com/features/06_11_01highlightJasperJohns.asp   (1089 words)      Matthew Marks Gallery Johns produced a total of 61 paintings, drawings, and prints based on the catenary theme, 38 of which are included in this exhibition. After completing the installation of his 1996 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Jasper Johns retreated to his studio in Connecticut to wipe the slate clean, beginning a body of work that was a dramatic departure from anything he had made before. Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Jasper Johns: Catenary, the next exhibition at his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=2&c=7&e=394&l=102&pr=1   (262 words)      National Gallery of Art - Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades (News Release) Johns created this random and abstract motif, which has been prominent in his works since the early 1970s, in response to lines he noticed on a passing car. Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades is organized by Ruth Fine, the Gallery's curator of modern prints and drawings. The exhibition closes with a selection of works in which Johns incorporates a rich array of images that reference art history--appropriating motifs from earlier artists such as Matthias Grünewald and Edvard Munch. http://www.nga.gov/press/2001/exhibitions/johns   (896 words)      Jasper Johns: more than the slayer of Abstract Expressionist giants But in general, a broader thing that Nauman tried to put his finger on is that Johns has somehow managed to produce an art of potent subjectivity, even a Romantic emotional energy, without succumbing to trivial autobiography or a sense of smarmy sentimentality. One thing that is remarkable about Jasper is that artists as different as Brice Marden and Gober could feel equally indebted to him. Since his star rose with the famed "Flag" and "Target" paintings of the mid 1950s, Jasper Johns (born 1930) has achieved a position of preeminence among post-War American artists. http://www.jasonkaufman.com/articles/jasper_johns.htm   (4414 words)      Jasper Johns Published in conjunction with the 1996-97 retrospective exhibition of Jasper Johns's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, this book is the very first to place this prolific artist in the context of his own words and private writings. All the more remarkable then that the work of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg is so completely distinct; one could simply never mistake one artist's hand for the other's. Most of the rest of the book is like a snapshot album, immersing the reader in pictures of Johns, his studio, his paintings, and historical artifacts. http://www.queertheory.com/histories/j/johns_jasper.htm   (914 words)      Jasper Johns Johns exhibited his first flag paintings at the important Leo Castelli Gallery in 1958. Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, Southerners, close friends, similar in age, neighbors who lived in the same building and saw each other's work daily, are credited with inspiring the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art in the 1950s. A struggling artist in New York City, he painted, during the next three years, more flags, as well as targets, stenciled numbers or letters, and other emblems that filled the entire surface of the canvas, forcing an awareness of the painting as the object itself. http://www.wfu.edu/academics/art/ac_johns_flags.htm   (201 words)      Jasper Johns: Numbers Johns developed their form from commercial stencils and the use of such "found" shapes-ones that are pre-determined and widely recognizable-challenges the way the viewer looks at works of art by transforming the ordinary into richly worked visual objects. In 1955, Jasper Johns did a series of encaustic and collage paintings of single numbers on a rectangular field, called Figures and the variations he developed on this motif over the next decade produced some of his greatest masterpieces. John's art had its roots in earlier modern movements, including Cubism, Dada and Surrealism. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa130.htm   (1012 words)      Aspen no. 3, item 8: 12 Paintings from the Powers' Collection Johns is one of the founders of the Pop Art movement. This is more a sculpture than a painting, although it has some painterly qualities about it. And how can one maintain that the "John and Mary" aspects of a work are unimportant, when the artist puts it in front of your face in his title and carries it out in the work? http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen3/powers.html   (3492 words)      Guardian Unlimited Arts Arts features The pop artist who ate himself Johns has also been reworking a Picasso head, taken from Woman with a Straw Hat, from 1936, in which Picasso turns the head into a kind of foetal sexualised blob: a cheek becomes a breast, the eye a nipple, the mouth a vagina. Recent essays on Johns are almost as difficult as the works and working processes they attempt to describe. Since the travelling retrospective that came to London's Hayward gallery in 1977, the last significant show of Johns in Britain was the wonderful and memorable Dancers on a Plane, at the capital's Anthony D'Offay gallery in 1989, which examined the collaborative friendship between Johns, composer John Cage and dancer-choreographer Merce Cunningham. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,1264754,00.html   (1387 words)      Jasper Johns These works by Johns may play games with the addition of real objects to a painted canvas, but their central preoccupation is the paint on the canvas, worked, layered, varied in texture, self-assertive. Everything depended on the slightest inflections of the paint or wax or the pencil or charcoal or wash, which meant that the marks had to be on a smaller scale than those which were commonly current. Hence the affinity of the marks in the paintings to those of Cézanne, and of the marks in the drawings to those of Seurat and occasionally of Van Gogh's landscapes (as in Flag, 1958, in Leo Castelli's collection). http://www.artchive.com/artchive/J/johnsbio.html#images   (4068 words)      Jasper Johns Online Jasper Johns at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Tate Gallery, London, UK Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 24 works by Jasper Johns Jasper Johns at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Perilous Night http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/johns_jasper.html   (553 words)      The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Modern Art By the mid- to late 1950s Johns had already achieved fame with his paintings of targets, numerals, and American flags, and his work was exhibited in prominent museums and galleries in New York. Throughout his oeuvre — which includes painting, prints, drawings, and sculpture — images are constantly recycled and combined in extensive series. 1950—51), Johns became acquainted with artist Robert Rauschenberg, composer John Cage, and dancer Merce Cunningham. http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=21&full=0&item=1998.329   (491 words)      Jasper Johns (1930 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Jasper Johns first came to public attention over 50 years ago, with his now-famous images of flags, numerals and impersonal household objects, or - as he described them - “things we already know”. Jasper Johns - Perilous Night 1982 encaustic on canvas National Gallery of Art American Jasper Johns - Usuyuki 1977-78 encaustic and collag Cleveland Museum of Art American http://wwar.com/masters/j/johns-jasper.html   (1775 words)      Jasper Johns Jasper Johns concentrates the whole variety of life, objects and art into a few central motifs, which he selects subjectively. http://www.geocities.com/jasperjohnspop   (133 words)      de Young Exhibitions Jasper Johns: 45 Years of Master Prints inaugurates the Anderson Gallery of Graphic Arts, a 1,500 square foot gallery dedicated to installations of modern and contemporary works on paper at the new de Young. Johns has made prints continually since that time, frequently returning to ULAE but also working in lithography, screenprint, and etching at other fine art presses such as Gemini G. and Simca. http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=491   (121 words)      Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint Johns himself speaks at length about his influences and his methods against the backdrop of footage showing him at work in various media, including etching, lithography, and painting. Jasper Johns emerged as a preeminent force on the American art scene in the late 1950s. A series of art critics, curators, and good friends discuss Johns' career and his place in the art world. http://www.dickblick.com/zz725/39   (203 words)      Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983 Born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia and raised in South Carolina, Johns moved to New York in the early 1950s and became friends with artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham, each of whom shared a passion for bringing the experiences of daily life into art. In the Museum’s 1991 canvas, Johns expounds on a drawing by a young girl who developed schizophrenia after losing both her parents. Licensed by VAGA, NY NY South Carolinians look with pride on the achievements of Jasper Johns, an internationally known artist who has astonished critics and collectors alike with the beauty, invention, and intelligence of his work. http://greenvillemuseum.org/johns_rel.html   (553 words)      JASPER JOHNS by David Cohen With Jasper Johns, as with Samuel Beckett, everything means something, or two things, or nothing. Jasper Johns: The Sculptures, Leeds City Art Gallery, 18 April-29 June 1996 Because Johns can offer seemingly little else by way of aesthetic consolation, this sort of epistemological tease can sometimes constitute the main interest in his work. http://www.artcritical.com/dc'sdozen/johns.htm   (1364 words)      Amazon.com: Jasper Johns: Privileged Information: Books: Jill Johnston Her thesis is intriguing, and her analyses of Johns's paintings insightful, but her spiteful comments on the contemporary art world are disturbing, as are her accounts of her persistent interrogation of the artist and his family to ferret out the personal, such as his relationship with his parents and his homosexuality. Johns refused to give her any information, nor would he allow reproductions of his paintings in the book. Despite his fame as an artist, Johns has always managed to keep his personal life a mystery. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0500017360?v=glance   (1193 words)      Jasper Johns prints echo, embellish his other work Jasper Johns sits at or near the mountaintop of art market and critical prestige. Johns at first translated into lithography subjects and ideas that he had tried in drawing and painting. Fortunately for those curious about his art but unfamiliar with it, Johns has long rehearsed in prints much of the thinking that goes into his paintings. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/15/DDGEBF8A4S1.DTL&type=art   (510 words)      Matthew Marks Bags Jasper Johns - How a Young Art Dealer Won Over the Most Important Living Painter But, as his paintings attest, Johns is a meticulous man of deliberate calculation, and it’s unlikely he made the move to Matthew Marks haphazardly. Johns doesn’t need Marks; he could have gotten somebody to start a new gallery just to show his work. Johns is America’s—some would say the world’s—preeminent living painter, not to mention the most highly priced. http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/11892   (1137 words)      Jasper Johns paintings Jasper Johns at the Society of Arts Academy. Jasper Johns at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art Jasper Johns at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.theo-zimmerman.freeserve.co.uk/jasperjohns.html   (150 words)      artnet.com Magazine Features - Invisible Man Jasper Johns, "Catenary," May 7-June 25, 2005, at Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street, New York, N.Y. is co-author of Most Art Sucks: Five Years of Coagula (Smart Art Press). But Jasper, here's a little secret, before it's too late: There's more, a lot more to be had, in life and art, than what you've given us and what you've taken. Jasper Johns, untitled intaglios from 2000, at Matthew Marks Gallery http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/cfinch/finch5-18-05.asp   (418 words)      Jasper Johns [1930] - Featured Artist on Artfact.com Jasper Johns artist portrait, brief biography and art His readings in psychology and philosophy, particularly the work of Wittgenstein; his study of Cézanne, Duchamp, Leonardo, Picasso and other artists; and his love of poetry have all found expression in his work. Jasper Johns artist portrait, brief biography, art and links http://www.artfact.com/features/viewArtist.cfm?aID=18554   (446 words)      Jasper Johns posters and prints Credited with being the ‘bridge’ between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and Minimal Art Jasper Johns is an American painter sculptor and printmaker. From his first exhibition in 1955 Johns has become one of America’s most famous and wealthiest artists producing gloopy paintings of commonplace objects. Beer cans flags numbers paintbrushes — all have been subjects of colourful yet artificial and realistic paintings by Jasper Johns... http://www.urbanposters.com/cat.cfm?nid=1656   (104 words)      UAMA Hosts Jasper Johns Exhibit Jasper Johns emerged as a force in the American art scene in the 1950s and now is widely hailed as an American master whose paintings and prints fetch record prices. In 2004, these Jasper Johns prints from 1960-2001 continue to perplex and delight. His trademark maps, flags and targets are presented with elegance and refinement conveyed the "cool" message coined as pop art and minimalism in the 1960s. http://uanews.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/wa/MainStoryDetails?ArticleID=8524   (231 words)      Free Times: S.C.’s flag man and native son, Jasper Johns Near the end of the illustrated lecture there was an opportunity for Q&A. One accusation, fairly common in contemporary art circles, was that Johns could not have known all insight and information credited to him and that the paintings weren’t all that intentional. The two hotshots on stage were luminaries at Yale, acknowledged authorities on Jasper Johns. During our 30 minute tour of the Johns paintings, the curator was almost too polite, too democratic. http://www.free-times.com/Reviews/art_reviews/jasperjohns2.html   (1562 words)      MoMA.org Exhibitions 1996 Jasper Johns Selected Works Works of art by Jasper Johns are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced without the express written authorization of Jasper Johns or his http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1996/johns/works.html   (33 words)      Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint Johns' paintings laid the foundation for the emerging minimalism and pop art, two very refined and often technically precise art forms which evolved from the visceral and spontaneous nature of the Expressionist movements. A portrait of the pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter Jasper Johns. Compare prices for Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint merchandise http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jasper_johns_ideas_in_paint/about.php   (259 words)      Johns, Jasper gallery at Fine Art Site Many additional fine art prints and other objects by Johns are available on the art market today. All artwork (c) Jasper Johns or the estate of. FRAGMENT - ACCORDING TO WHAT - LEG AND CHAIR (F. Color lithograph on arches paper, 1971, signed in pencil http://www.fineartsite.com/gallery/Johns_1.php3   (211 words)      Jasper Johns Limited Editions and Originals Jasper Johns is one of many artists through Herndon Fine Art. If you are interested in buying or selling fine art by Jasper Johns, we are your source. All information contained in these web pages is trademarked and copyrighted by Herndon Fine Art 2006 (c). http://www.herndonfineart.com/johns.htm   (163 words)      Hofstra Museum, Permanent Collection, Jasper Johns As Johns' work evolved during the 1970s and into the present, it became more expressionist and collage like, incorporating panels of color, abstract shapes, letterforms, and found objects. In more recent years his work has become increasingly personal, allegorical, and it often evokes memory by incorporating elements and images from his earlier works. JohnsÂ’ first museum retrospective was held at the Jewish Museum, New York in 1964 followed by one in 1965 at the Pasadena Art Museum, California. http://www.hofstra.edu/COM/Museum/museum_collection_70_134.cfm   (409 words)      MSN Encarta - Jasper Johns Johns, Jasper, born in 1930, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, who has played a leading role in the development of mid-20th-century American... Become a subscriber today and gain access to: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761568220/Jasper_Johns.html   (76 words)      Jasper Johns Arts & Photography - Artists, A-Z - (J-L) - Johns, Jasper http://www.zooscape.com/cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/monad10221106   (65 words)      SFMOMA Jasper Johns: 0 through 9 This section of Making Sense of Modern Art explores Jasper Johns's painting 0 through 9. Making Sense of Modern Art offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works in the Museum's permanent collection. http://www.sfmoma.org/msoma/artworks/3289.html   (119 words)

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