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Inspired by the Jasper Johns painting "Numbers", I thought this project would be a wonderful way to introduce students to the work of Jasper...
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Before Christmas break, one of the 2nd grade teachers asked me if I could do a silhouette project with her students in conjunction with Pres...
Spread across three rooms, the exhibition is an intimate showcase of how a basic graphic motif can be deployed in a diverse array of mediums and styles, with works ranging from graphite wash on paper, to oil on canvas, watercolor, acrylic, and collage.
Jasper Johns would write in his sketch book as we all do. He wrote "commands" to himself in order to help himself "focus on the making." ...
SUSAN SHEEHAN GALLERY, New York NY USA - New Acquisition : Jasper Johns - January, 2021 @SusanSheehanGallery
During my Jasper Johns unit, the 4th graders created these fabulous bulls-eye paintings. We created a texture surface to paint on by layeri...
Mind/Mirror at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Jasper Johns. 8 from 0–9. 2013. One from a series of ten lithographs. composition: 6 15/16 × 5 3/8" (17.6 × 13.6 cm); sheet: 10 1/2 × 8" (26.7 × 20.3 cm). Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, NY. Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore, NY. Gift of Universal Limited Art Editions to celebrate the life of Sash A. Spencer. 589.2013.9. © 2025 Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Series. Drawings & Prints
At The Broad, March 2018.
In 1954, Jasper Johns began painting what would become one of his signature emblems: the American flag. As an iconic image--comparable to the targets, maps, and letters that he also has depicted--Johns realized that the flag was “seen and not looked at, not examined.” The execution and composition of Three Flags elicit close inspection by the viewer. The painting draws attention to the process of its making through Johns’s use of encaustic, a mixture of pigment suspended in warm wax that congeals as each stroke is applied; the resulting accumulation of discrete marks creates a sensuous, almost sculptural surface. The work’s structural arrangement adds to its complexity. The trio of flags—each successively diminished in scale by about twenty-five percent—projects outward, contradicting classical perspective, in which objects appear to recede from the viewer’s vantage point. By shifting the visual emphasis from the flag’s emblematic meaning to the geometric patterns and variegated texture of the picture surface and the canvas structure, Johns explores the boundary between abstraction and representation. As he remarked, this painting allowed him to “go beyond the limits of the flag, and to have different canvas space.”
Study for Jasper Johns portrait | Ghislain Pfersdorff
Perhaps no American artist is more associated with the U.S. flag than Pop Art icon Jasper Johns.
The title of this painting is a double entendre: it describes the numerical subject of the painting as well as the manner in which the viewer literally sees each number through the others. One of eleven paintings of superimposed numbers that Jasper Johns made in 1960-1961, the genesis of this work can be traced to the mid-1950s, when the artist began painting single numbers using commercial stencils. Johns has remarked that he was drawn to everyday signs and symbols as subjects, since their standardization and impersonality allowed him “room to work on other levels.” Often, these images enabled him to explore processes and habits of perception. The layering here, for example, nullifies the consecutive sequencing we expect when looking at numbers; instead, we perceive portions of the numerals simultaneously and conceptually complete their forms.
A single venue was not enough. Jasper Johns needed two major American museums to host his 90th year birthday retrospective (91st to be precise, delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic).
View Cicada (1980) By Johns Jasper; ink and graphite on plastic; image: 26 ¼ x 20 ¼ in. 66.7 x 51.4 cm. sheet: 32 ½ x 25 5/8 in. 82.6 x 65.1 cm. ; Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.
