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Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15 , 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary artist. Unsourced I am concerned with a thing's not being what it was, with its becoming something other than what it is. Everything was for the process...a moment in time,not...


Biography

Name: Jasper Johns
Birth Date: 1930
Place of Birth: Augusta, Georgia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: artist, painter, sculptor

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Biography of Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns (born 1930), American painter and sculptor, helped break the hold of abstract expressionism on modern American art and cleared the way for pop art. Versatile in several different artistic fields, he has given the world sculptures,...


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Johns, Jasper (1930—) Summary
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With only two years of formal art training from the University of South Carolina, Jasper Johns moved to New York City at the age of twenty-four. A southerner, Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia, and brought up in the Carolinas. He supported himself as...
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Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is a contemporary U.S. artist in painting and...


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Artforum International
Figuring Jasper Johns.
06/22/1995: 1,344 words, approx. 5 pages
When a critic's involvement reaches high intensity, a kind of identification occurs and the rhetoric of the critical writing begins to reflect the nature of the topic. Yet to the extent that criticism not only addresses its topic but comes to identify with and...
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The Village Voice
Jasper Johns: Catenary
06/08/2005: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
TJHAESCPOEDRE: Hungup on puzzles, paintings cast apall JASPER JOHNS: CATENARY MatthewMarks Gallery 522 West 22nd Street ThroughJune25 Thrillers like The Da Vinci Code provide an initial buzz, but asplottwistsmechanisticallypileup, puzzlesolving becomes a chore. Sad to report, the great Jasper...
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AP News
Art gallery to get Jasper Johns prints
3/6/2007: 402 words, approx. 1 pages
The National Gallery of Art is to acquire about 1,700 proofs from Jasper Johns, which would make the gallery the largest institutional repository of his works.The purchase of Johns' lithographs, etchings, relief prints and screen prints will be completed by the end of 2008. The...
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Warhol work sets record at NYC auction
5/17/2007: 282 words, approx. 1 pages
An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than $71 million, more than quadrupling the previous top auction price for the pop artist's work, an auction house said.The Wednesday auction of postwar and contemporary art took in a total of nearly $385 million, making it the...
 


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Jasper Johns: Biography of an Innovator
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Jasper Johns is one of the biggest names associated with American post-Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He pioneered these genres of painting in the twentieth century and has led an extraordinary life of innovation.


 

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