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A game of hide and seek Jasper Johns, once an iconoclast and now a grand old man of American art, walks a tightrope between self- revelation and self-concealment, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon, who visits a new show of his work
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It has been almost 50 years since Jasper Johns changed the course
of art with his first one-man show, at the Leo Castelli Gallery in
New York in 1958. American painting was dominated at the time by the
powerful example of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Willem de
Kooning, with his furiously splashed depictions of women, and Jackson
Pollock, whose tangled skeins of dripped oil paint suggested the
overspills of an agitated psyche. By contrast, Johns presented his
audience with deadpan imag...
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; ... only in their subjects, their dimly shining targets, their U.S. maps and flags, but also in their somberness. That "Target With Four ... alphabets and numbers-his paired spheres and his targets, his maps and hooks and targets, his ale cans and coffee tins, and later ...
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Dear Johns
The Village Voice
; ... delirious copulations of the heady and the juicy as Painting With Two Balls, 0 through 9, and (my own favorite Johnses) the U.S.Maps. Johns's output in this period may be often forced and dubiously theatrical, but it always excites. Regarding it with an open ...
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Johns' Marketable Mystique; His Early Work Brings Millions, But the Artist's Vision Is Fading
The Washington Post
; New York's Jasper Johns must pinch himself each morning just to see if it is over yet. For more than 30 years now, he's lived the Painter's Dream. At Sotheby's on Thursday, his "False Start" (1959) sold for $17.05 million, becoming the most expensive picture by a living artist ever placed upon the
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Rally round the flag, boys. (artist Jasper Johns)
Newsweek
; ... offered him a solo show on the spot. MoMA bought four paintings from that 1958 show. Flags begat targets begat numbers begat maps--all rendered with that minestrone-like surface that became Johns's trademark. Then he went loud with such paintings as False ...
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JASPER JOHNS, PERSONALLY SPEAKING;The Artist at 60: Turning Inward in His Work, Breaking the Silence on His Life
The Washington Post
; It is 10 a.m. At home in the protective bubble of his midtown Manhattan town house, across its elegant little courtyard, Jasper Johns, arguably America's preeminent living artist, can be seen in his studio, adding a bit of paint to the canvas in front of him. The image: a wristwatch hanging from a
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A game of hide and seek Jasper Johns, once an iconoclast and now a grand old man of American art, walks a tightrope between self- revelation and self-concealment, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon, who visits a new show of his work
The Sunday Telegraph London
; ... agitated psyche. By contrast, Johns presented his audience with deadpan images of everyday objects - American flags, targets, maps, stencilled numerals - meticulously painted by hand. They were dumbfounding in their apparent banality. Johns described his favoured ...
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SMART ART JOHNS EXHIBIT AT MMOCA SHOWS MASTERLY PRINTMAKING.(LIFESTYLE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; Byline: KEVIN LYNCH The Capital Times Jasper Johns. His name is almost a Jasper Johns idea, or motif, as a critic would say. The two big Js, the most ordinary of first names flipped over as a last name, and made plural. The p and the h situated as virtual mirror forms. Sorting through the nuances
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"Jasper Johns: Gray"
Artforum
; ... a dream was reinforced by these ghostly alter egos. Targets, maps, alphabets, and numbers, the other key subjects of Johns's early ... appeared widely in more "normal" Johns surveys, such as 4 the News, Device, and Fool's House, all 1962; Voice, 1964-67; and the ...
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Jasper Johns's True Aim; Exhibition Zeroes In on A Momentous Decade for The Painter, and Art Itself
The Washington Post
; It's said that there are many types of intelligence, other than the bookish kind. Wayne Gretzky had what you could call athletic intelligence. He had a genius for understanding how bodies and objects move through space, and for controlling how he might intersect with both. An investor such as
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Gallery exhibit spotlights the artistic genius of Jasper Johns
Charleston Daily Mail
; WASHINGTON - It's said that there are many types of intelligence, other than the bookish kind. Wayne Gretzky had what you could call athletic intelligence. He had a genius for understanding how bodies and objects move through space, and for controlling how he might intersect with both. An investor
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