Jasper Johns Biography

Jasper Johns, Artist

Occup.	Artist
From	USA
Born	May 15, 1930 Augusta, Georgia
Age	94 years

Jasper Johns was born upon May 15, 1930, in Augusta, Georgia, United States. His moms and dads, William Jasper Johns as well as Jean Riley Johns, were both participants in the military; his papa offered in the Army, while his mommy was affixed to the Birmingham branch of the Red Cross. Jasper was increased in Allendale, South Carolina, with his three brother or sisters.

Johns attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia from 1947 to 1948 however left when he made a decision to move to New York City to seek a job in art. He spent two years researching at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, after that functioned as a self-employed artist as well as a home window dresser for various outlet store.

In the very early 1950s, Johns created an imaginative collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg, the artist whom he had actually satisfied in 1953 at the distinguished Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Together with Rauschenberg, Johns explored a selection of art types, including sculpture, assemblage, and also performance art.

In the mid-1950s, Johns emerged as a cutting-edge painter. His very first solo exhibition, held in 1958, at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City, marked a transforming point in the history of abstract art. Johns' paints, which frequently included widespread things such as flags, maps, targets, and also letters, opposed the prevailing aesthetic standards of the time, destabilizing the difference between representation and also abstraction.

Johns' work quickly ended up being a touchstone for a generation of contemporaries, consisting of musicians such as Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, and Roy Lichtenstein, to name a few. He aided to introduce a new period of modern-day art that focused on the physicality of the paint itself, instead of its topic.

Throughout his job, Johns checked out different media, including printmaking, sculpture, and also collection, and won numerous awards and also distinctions for his work. In 1988, he was granted the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan, the highest possible private honor in the United States.

Today, Johns remains among the most seminal artists of the 20th century, having tested preconceptions concerning representation, abstraction, and also the significance of art itself. He remains to influence brand-new generations of musicians and also art lovers with his innovative work and also his long-lasting legacy.

Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Jasper.

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20 Famous quotes by Jasper Johns

"Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life"

"I tend to like things that already exist"

"I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea"

"Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that"

"As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion"

"Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me"

"Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that"

"I never wish for critics"

"I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason"

"Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither"

"One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space"

"I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts"

"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another"

"The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another"

"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist"

"One works without thinking how to work"

"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 would be in a situation different than the one that I was in"

"I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement"

"I am just trying to find a way to make pictures"

"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive"