One of Johns’ most recent works, created in 2016, has several recurring images, including a ruler. In Untitled, Johns used the colors, and words, Red, Yellow and Blue, and snuck a little square of green stuck in the corner of the lithograph. There is also humor in much of Johns’ work. Johns’ work is very personal and, although he has never been chatty with long explanations, the titles of his paintings, and snippets that he has shared with friends, sometimes reveal the back story. The hand that recurs in many paintings, is based on a poem by the poet, Hart Crane, who committed suicide at age 32, by diving off a ship into the Gulf of Mexico and stretched his hand above the waves just before he drowned. Crane’s poetry, and despair, resonated with Johns, and he began the Periscope series at a time in his life when he had just had an unhappy breakup with Robert Rauschenberg. This method has worked so well for Johns, and those who see his work that, just a few years ago, one of his flag paintings went for $36 million. Johns’ repeated use of familiar symbols (he has done dozens of flag paintings), covered by his heavy brushstrokes, act as backgrounds for his works that allow the viewer to give them meaning. He succinctly explained his process in a notebook, in which he wrote, “Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it. He said that the idea for his first Flag painting, which catapulted him to fame when he was just 24, came to him in a dream. Jasper Johns has never been one to talk about, or explain, his work. He still works in his studio, a converted barn on his property and, last year, Johns made plans to turn his 170-acres into an artists’ retreat after his death. He lives, and works, in his home in Sharon, Connecticut. Johns has been making his mark on the art world for more than sixty years. Horst P.At age 88, Jasper Johns has remained one of America’s most prominent living artists.Käthe Kollwitz, In Memoriam Karl Liebknecht.Meret Oppenheim, Object (Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon).Alberto Giacometti, The Palace at 4 a.m.René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe).Surrealist Techniques: Subversive Realism.Hannah Höch, Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.Dada’s “Aproximate Man”: A Portrait of Tristan Tzara (1919) by Marcel Janco.Raoul Hausmann, Spirit of the Age: Mechanical Head.Max Ernst, Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale.The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass).Art as concept: In Advance of the Broken Arm.Giorgio de Chirico, The Soothsayer’s Recompense.Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli.Gino Severini, Dynamic Hieroglyph of the Bal Tabarin.Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.De Stijl, Part III: The Total De Stijl Environment.De Stijl, Part II: Near-Abstraction and Pure Abstraction.Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare.Amedeo Modigliani, Young Woman in a Shirt.Varvara Stepanova, The Results of the First Five-Year Plan.Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition: White on White.Russian Neo-Primitivism: Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov.Robert Delaunay, Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon.The Cubist City – Robert Delaunay and Fernand Léger.Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso: Two Cubist Musicians.Le Viaduc à L’Estaque, (The Viaduct at L’Estaque). ![]() The Old Guitarist, and the question of beauty.How to paint like Pablo Picasso (Cubism).Pablo Picasso and the new language of Cubism.Who created the first abstract artwork?.Nazi looting: Egon Schiele’s Portrait of Wally.Franz Marc and the animalization of art.Alexej von Jawlensky, Young Girl in a Flowered Hat.Paula Modersohn-Becker, Self-Portrait Nude with Amber Necklace, Half-Length I.Women in the Interior I Museums Without Borders.Art and context: Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville and Malevich’s White on White.Representation and abstraction: looking at Millais and Newman.An Introduction to photography in the early 20th century.Elena FitzPatrick Sifford on casta paintingsīIPOC Reader: Teaching Practices and Strategies with… Reframing Art History, a new kind of textbook.Not your grandfather’s art history: a BIPOC Reader.With 503 contributors from 201 colleges, universities, museums, and researchĬenters, Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world. We believe that the brilliant histories of art belong to everyone, no matter their background. At Smarthistory, the Center for Public Art History, we believe art has the power to transform lives and to build understanding across cultures.
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