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JASPER JOHNS

JASPER JOHNS. By Valeria Parodi. HIS LIFE. Jasper Johns was born in May 15 th , 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and from the age of 5 he knew he wanted to be a artist. He studied at the University of South Carolina from 1947 to 1948.

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JASPER JOHNS

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  1. JASPER JOHNS By Valeria Parodi

  2. HIS LIFE • Jasper Johns was born in May 15th, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and from the age of 5 he knew he wanted to be a artist. • He studied at the University of South Carolina from 1947 to 1948. • He then moved to New York and studied briefly at Parsons School of Design in 1949. • In 1952 he was drafted in the army and stationed in Japan during the Korean War. • In 1958 Leo Castelli discovered Jasper in Robert Rauschenberg’s studio.

  3. HIS WORK • His earliest and most famous work if the Flag (1954) which he painted after having a dream of the American Flag. • After his American Flag painting he started painting targets, numbers and letters. • His most famous target painting is Target with Four Faces.

  4. MORE OF HIS WORK • From the 1950’s into the 1960’s, Johns made paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints that presented commonplace, two-dimensional objects with absolute objectivity and precision • Flags, targets, number sequences, letters of the alphabet, and maps were painted in either bright colors of red, blue, yellow, orange and green, or monochrome lead gray. • His work often is described as Neo-Dadaist but he is also included in pop art because of the of classical iconography used in his paintings • At the end of the 1960’s, Johns painted stenciled words and objects with more fluid brushstrokes and a wider palette. • In the ‘crosshatch’ paintings of the 1970’s, Johns used pale colors applied in parallel brushstrokes and in the 1980’s he introduced figural elements in an autobiographical series of paintings and prints.

  5. PAINTINGS • The Map resembles the kind of pull-down map found in a 20th-century classroom. • This work was painted in 1961, the year President John F. Kennedy took office following the calm 1950s. The civil rights movement was just beginning; the Berlin Wall bad been built; the cold war with Russia was escalating • This painting might be suggesting that we take a new look at our changing country The Map

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  8. CITATIONS • "A language of his own". Proquest. 05/02/07 <http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.vccs.edu:2048/pqdweb?index=5&did=1223779901&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=4&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1178151501&clientId=1364>. • "Jasper Johns". Lenin imports. 05/02/07 <http://www.leninimports.com/jasper_johns_bio.html>. • "Artists". Acquavella Galleries. 05/02/07 <http://www.acquavellagalleries.com/main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=197>. • "Jasper Johns". scholastic Art. 05/02/07 <http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/files/Art_TE_Elem.pdf>

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