Everything about Jasper Johns totally explained
Jasper Johns, Jr. (born
May 15,
1930 in
Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary
U.S. artist in painting and
printmaking.
Early life
Jasper Johns grew up in
Allendale, South Carolina, and recounting this period in his life, he says, "In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I'd be in a situation different than the one that I was in."
Johns studied at the
University of South Carolina from 1947 to 1948, a total of three semesters. He then moved to
New York City and studied briefly at
Parsons School of Design in 1949. as well as
Merce Cunningham and
John Cage. Working together they explored the contemporary art scene, and began developing their ideas on art. In 1952 and 1953 he was stationed in
Sendai,
Japan during the
Korean War.
In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin (founder of the Chicago-based
hedge fund Citadel Investment Group) bought Johns'
False Start for $80 million, making it the most expensive painting by a living artist.
The
National Gallery of Art acquired about 1,700 of Johns’ proofs in 2007. This made the gallery home to the largest amount of Jasper Johns’ works. The exhibition showed works from many points in Johns’ career including recent proofs of his prints.
Other work
- White Flag (1955)
- False Start (1959)
- Study for Skin (1962)
- Figure Five (1963-64)
- Seasons (1986)
- Three Flags (1958)
In the spring of 2008, a ten-year retrospective of Johns' drawings was mounted at New York City's
Matthew Marks Gallery.
Jasper Johns once guest-starred on
The Simpsons as himself. In the episode "
Mom and Pop Art",
Homer Simpson accidentally becomes an artist, and Johns attends one of his exhibitions. Johns is portrayed as a
kleptomaniac, stealing items of food, lightbulbs, a motor boat, and a painting
Marge is working on.
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