• Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art.
  • Detail of Flag 1954–55, Museum of Modern Art, New York. This image illustrates Johns's early technique of painting with encaustic over a collage made from found materials such...
  • Hailed a forefather of Conceptual, Minimal, and Pop Art, Jasper Johns is often considered one of the most technically talented American artists alive today.
  • Jasper Johns first painted the American flag in 1954–1955 aged 24, and it's been a frequently recurring motif in his practice ever since.
  • The great merit of the Jasper Johns retrospectives, shown simultaneously at the Whitney Museum in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is that it gives...
  • For 7 decades Jasper Johns has been Internationally recognized for iconic paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints from Targets, Maps, Crosshatch, Savarin…
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  • Upon moving to New York, Jasper Johns met artists, which led him down the road of wanting to work in this career field even more.
  • Jasper Johns turned the mighty US flag into simple paintings and elevated everyday objects into expensive works of art.
  • Jasper Johns initiated a dialogue with the viewer and their cultural context through his artistic exploration of how people see the things around them.