He currently lives and works in Sharon, CT. Jasper Johns, Print, American Flat, Poster, Flag, Political, Cultural, Commentary, Two, Whitney, Anniversary, Robert Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Warhol. Presented simultaneously at the Whitney and the Philadelphia of Museum of Art, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror opens on Septemand will be on view through February 13, 2022.Throughout the duration of the exhibition, visitors who attend the exhibition at the Whitney or the Philadelphia Museum of Art will enjoy 50 off admission at the other. Johns was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1988, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.
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Both the Whitney and Philadelphia venues survey the full arc of Johns’s career. Their Neo-Dada works, which blended cultural imagery-signs, maps, and targets-paralleled the advancements made by Pop artists like Andy Warhol. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is designed as a single exhibition with two equal, and self-sufficient, parts. Along with the work of his close friend, Rauschenberg, Johns’s sculptural paintings and readymades signified the resurgence of Marcel Duchamp’s influence upon contemporary art. While in New York, he met Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.” Born on in Augusta, GA, Johns left his course of study at the University of South Carolina after one year and moved to New York. “The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. “I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life,” the artist mused. In Flag (1954–1955), perhaps his most famous work-a collage of paper, encaustic oil, and fabric-Johns makes a formal abstraction from the American stars and stripes while also muting its power. Art Brokerage: Jasper Johns American Artist: Jasper Johns is an iconic American artist who came to define the period between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
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