The book covers all aspects of his art: 200 works including sculpture, drawings, and prints.He is also known for his personal relationships with Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage.He laid the groundwork for Pop Art and Minimalism. Johns is best known for his paintings of flags, targets, maps, letters and numbers.1930 Augusta GA lives in Sharon CT) is one of the world's most important living and influential American artists. Sometimes, like stop signs on a road, they even seem to resist the viewer, blocking our line of sight, and challenging our preconception that a picture must offer a window onto a world."īOOKSELLER TRADE ANNOTATION A major overview of the American Pop artist Jasper Johns from the Royal Academy of Arts "His paintings are characterised by timelessness and stasis. What exactly is it to know a thing, to wrest meaning and significance from an everyday object? How do you pass from inert contemplation to awe-struck regard? What is it that raises up an everyday object until it is transformed into a symbol that binds us and unites us – such as the American flag?" "He paints objects that we think we know – flags, targets, light bulbs, numerals, maps – because familiarity breeds indifference, and John’s enterprise is to shake us out of that indifference, to cleanse us of that jaded way of looking. The thick encaustic surface of another canvas bears savage tooth marks. The word “No” emits bodily from one canvas, dangling on a wire, leaving a No-shaped wound in the paint. At the Royal Academy, there is the most forceful sense of Johns trying to get as much into – and out of – a picture as he can, pressing his face, hands and torso into the painting, cutting the canvas in two, showing its back, hanging a loop of string from one side to the other that sheds a shadow line across the surface. "A painting is an object as well as an image very few artists have made quite such a point of this fact. I wish I could say the same of painting." "I've always been attracted to poetry… One finds harmony in poetry, but no systematic order.
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