Varied and contradictory modes of language and art-making abut one another, such as printing, found and cast objects, and abstract brushwork…. Private collection loan to a retrospective in 2021/22 of the work of Jasper John, American born 1930.Ĭuratorial comment on this large work is that it is “…filled with subtle references, puns, and propositions about the relationship of a work’s to the world. Jasper Johns, American born 1930Īccording to What, 1964, oil, charcoal and graphite on canvas, with objects. Private collection loan to a 2021/22 retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, American born 1930 MOMA, NY loan to a 2021/22 retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, American born 1930įield Painting, 1963-64, oil on canvas, with objects. Rauschenberg multiplied his creative interactions with the world in which he sought a humane, positive role for artists.ĭiver, 1962-63, charcoal, pastel, and paint on two sheets of paper mounted on two adjoined canvas supports. Johns asks us to follow him into his mind and to trust that what interests him about the mechanics of perception and sense-making makes sense to us and is important to us. Therein a difference which tends to distance some of us from the work of Jasper Johns’ as it tends to endear the work of Robert Rauschenberg to us. Rau schenberg said: “I think a painting is more like the real world if it is made out of the real world.” The source of Robert Rauschenberg’s expansion remained always the diverse world.
Jasper Johns expanded the field of play by exploring the working of his mind. The importance of his work and that of his sometime close coll aborator, Robert Rauschenberg, is to have expanded the means, motifs, and intent of artistic expression. Jasper Johns has executed a number of works in washes of gray which some have interpreted as washes of grief His interest has been to question what it is that defines a work of art. Dallas Museum of Art loan to a 2021/22 retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, American born 1930Ī young man, sometimes a boy, appears in many of Johns’ works.Ī close student of Paul Cézanne, the Cubists and of Marcel Duchamp, Johns denies that his motifs have any intrinsic meaning. Motifs also include circular disks sometimes with one of the two hands of a clock.ĭevice, 1961-62, oil on canvas with objects. The Broad’s take is that this painting speaks to the essential Johns: “Overall, Watchman is a painting that is trying to be more than a painting it is caught in the very moment when the world of thought and representation (of symbols and signs) is transitioning into the world of action and physical expression.”
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His sketchbooks note the difference between the watchman – always looking – and the spy whose goal is to be overlooked and to learn how to remember what he saw. Loaned by The Broad, Los Angeles to a 2021/22 retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, American born 1930Ĭuratorial comment was that this was painted while the artist was visiting Japan. Watchman, 1964, oil on canvas with objects. Above this is the faint tracing of a demon from the 16th century Isenheim altarpiece (Mathias Grunewald). The Bath, encaustic on canvas, 1988 Loaned by the Kunstmuseum, Basel to a retrospective in 2021/22 of the work of Jasper Johns, American born 1930Ībove the bathtub is a fragmented copy of a Pablo Picasso painting of 1936 of his lover, Marie Therese Walter. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC loan to a 2021/22 retrospective of the work of Jasper Johns, American born 1930 Perilous Night, 1982, encaustic and silkscreen on canvas with objects. Letters and stenciled writing paving stones a cloth hanging from a nail Philadelphia Art Museumįragment – According to What: Hinged Canvas, 1971, lithograph (related to the work below) Jasper Johns, American born 1930, Philadelphia Art Museum He uses collage of fabric and newspaper and incorporates manufactured objects in his work.Ĭarved wood appears in his work cast wax and cast metal.Īmong the artist’s motifs are: flags, targets, maps, numbers, cross-hatching stick figures skeletal figures a jug whose handles form the outlines of the profiles of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Ī ladder coloured dots or blocks like the colour guide on the edge of a sample of printed fabric ĥ Postcards, 2011 either encaustic on canvas or oil on canvas or oil and graphite on canvas. Johns uses several materials A master print maker, he has worked with oil, acrylic, encaustic and ink on canvas, paper, and plastic.
The works below were on display in 20 at one museum or the other. Jasper Johns is widely considered the foremost living North American artist.Ī large retrospective planned for his 90th birthday by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art was delayed by Covid-19 and has just closed. From The Mind and the Mirror: exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of (North) American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2021/22
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