11/9/2022 0 Comments Jasper johns![]() ![]() From his iconic flags to lesser-known and recent works, the exhibition features paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints-nearly 500 artworks across the two museums, many of which are from Johns’s personal collection and shown publicly for the first time. This massive exhibition, simultaneously in both museums is the largest retrospective exhibition ever devoted to the Artist. Other Target images are included in Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, the simultaneous Jasper Johns retrospective jointly organized at the Philadelphia Museum and The Whitney Museum of American Art, on view now. Johns has worked with and continues to work with many of the most esteemed and talented technical printmakers of the 20th century, including Atelier Crommelynck, Petersburg Press, Gemini G.E.L., Universal Limited Art Editions, John Lund, Low Road Studios and Simca Print Artists. The variety of techniques allowed the Artist to refine and hone his ideas. Printmaking had a profound effect on Johns’s artistic career. ![]() Of those four earliest icons that occupy his work, the Target is Johns' most abstract image, representing something anonymous and universal, the familiar target continues to appear in Johns' work. This happened with the flags and targets that initially looked like the objects themselves and then became something else when looking at their surfaces.”Īs Johns explained, the imagery derives from “things the mind already knows,” utterly familiar icons such as Flags, Targets, Numbers and Maps. Noted Johns expert Roberta Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Albany, State University of New York, the foremost scholar of Jasper Johns art, and author, of several authoritative Jasper Johns monographs, including Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture remarked upon first viewing Jasper Johns Flag and Target: “My trust in my perceptions was shaken up. Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955 Levene had the distinct privilege of selling the aforementioned Target, 1961, encaustic on canvas, to a private collector in Japan, who a decade later sold it to the late Stefan T. Levene Fine Art, Ltd., he was President/COO, Petersburg Press, Inc. They, have themselves become a form of advertising, a logo for American postwar art. Target with Four Faces, 1955, now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, and Target, 1961, which is now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, were both painted in encaustic, an ancient tradition requiring heating wax, brushing it on evenly as one would frost a cake. ![]() Target is among images that first brought Jasper Johns fame, endlessly reproduced in the half century since he painted them. Jasper Johns worked closely with Aldo Crommelynck on this print, whose virtuosic command of traditional techniques coaxed the best out of European artists including Picasso, Braque and Matisse, and later helped younger American artists like Jim Dine and Jasper Johns. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los AngelesĪ master printmaker since 1960, Jasper Johns Target with Four Faces, 1979 color etching, soft ground, aquatint is one of the Artist's most iconic images without question, considered an important example from his Target series. ![]() Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Richard Field, The Prints of Jasper Johns 1960-1993: A Catalogue Raisonne, ULAE, New York, 1994, Catalogue Reference ULAE 203, n.p., another impression reproduced in full-page color.Ĭarlos Basualdo, Scott Rothkopf, Jasper Johns Mind/Mirror, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2021, another impression reproduced plate 30, pg. Signed & dated in pencil "J Johns '79" lower right Etching, soft ground, aquatint on Rives paper ![]()
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