Jasper Johns was twenty-four years old when he destroyed
all of his old art work it was at this point that he stated he wanted to
..Stop becoming and to be an artist....
Jasper Johns created his most iconic work ‘Flag’ and
exhibited it in New York in 1958. This piece sparked huge debate especially in
terms of its reproduction from an existing image. Johns commented that painting
existing images..
So I went on to
similar things like targets-things the mind already knows. This gave me room to
work on other levels.
Jasper Johns encaustic, oil and collage on fabric,
mounted on plywood to create this work. The use of encaustic allowed Johns to
work on other levels in the way that it separated and persevered each layer of
paint applied, building in a painterly way multilayer’s symbolic of the
different layers of meaning in his work.
-Vikki
I realy love the work of Jasper Johns Vikki. Its quite fitting to your Alter brief!
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Jasper Johns isnt strictly speaking an abstract expressionist. He mixed with abstract expressionists in New York in the Fifties. He seems to hover between the abstract expressionists and the start of the pop art movement although I feel he would not like to be pigeon holed as such!! I will investigate further and post my findings. Vicki.
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