GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When Jasper John’s flag and target paintings made their debut in 1958, they gave him instant acclaim and made him a critical link between Abstract Expressionism and Pop ...
It’s been striking to me to see how there are two camps of people in the lead up to the big, twin shows of Jasper Johns at the Whitney and the Philadelphia museums. There were people who were really ...
Imagine this curatorial nightmare. You persuade a collector to loan a modern masterpiece, purchased in 1988 for a record-breaking $17 million, for a blockbuster exhibition. Then, just weeks before ...
Collaborations between writers and artists can be a source of intense creative artistic expression. These partnerships may take a variety of forms with the most traditional on being that of the artist ...
Few artists earn the right to be called "forces" in American art. Jasper Johns is one of them. "There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists," he famously said ...
Between its two parts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror” has a staggering amount of work in it. The giant two-part career ...
Jasper Johns (born 1930) emerged in the 1950s as a critical figure in American art, notably influencing the Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art movements. Born in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South ...
Images of targets first emerged in Jasper Johns’ work in 1955 and are among the pioneering Pop artist’s most celebrated motifs. Everything about the image is familiar, and Johns himself described ...
Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today. By Carol Vogel A timely group show in ...