![]() This weeks Work Of the Week is Jasper Johns’ Target With Plaster Casts. ![]() At that first exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art purchased three pieces, making it clear that Johns was to become a major force in the art world. Castelli was so impressed with the 28-year-old painter’s ability and inventiveness that he offered him a show on the spot. In 1958, gallery owner Leo Castelli visited Rauschenberg’s studio and saw Johns’ work for the first time. Today, his prints and paintings set record prices at auction. Johns laid the groundwork for both Pop Art and Minimalism. Johns’ richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets in the late 1950’s, led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete. This irreverence for the fixed attitudes toward what could be considered art was a substantial influence for Johns. Duchamp had revolutionized the art world with his “readymades” - a series of found objects presented as finished works of art. After a visit to Philadelphia, with his good friend Robert Rauschenberg, to see Marcel Duchamp’s painting, The Large Glass (1915-23), Johns became very interested in his work. Jasper Johns is one of the most acclaimed and influential American artists of the 20th century.īorn and raised in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns grew up wanting to be an artist. He studied briefly at the University of South Carolina before moving to New York in the early Fifties. ![]() ![]() Etching and aquatint in colors on BFK Rives paper ![]()
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