Artists in the History

Jasper Johns

He wrote much of the work he created that took American public away from a form of Expressionism and into an art movement or form known as concrete and that created a more distinct style of work that was carried out during this period in the history of American art. It was also one of the driving forces behind the pop form known as minimalism and to the present, many of the pieces sold in auction are still sold at extremely high prices and record amounts.

In the mid-1950s, Jasper Johns was looking for a way to go beyond abstract expressionism. When Jasper Jones held his first solo show at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1958 – at the age of twenty-seven – his impact was immense and immediate. His work marked a new direction in contemporary art that will lead away from abstract expressionism to pop music, minimalism, conceptual art and more.

Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia. He spent most of his adult life in New York, and now he lives in Sharon, Connecticut, where he continues to work in his studio at the age of ninety-one.

In 1958, Leo Castelli visited the Rauschenburg Museum and saw the work of Jasper Johns for the first time. After seeing the work by Jasper Johns, he offered Jones a place for his exhibition.

The painting Green Target (1955) exhibited in 1957 in a group exhibition at the Jewish Museum, but Jones received his first solo exhibition in 1958 after Rauschenberg presented it to the growing and influential gallery owner Leo Castelli, which featured a groundbreaking painting by John Flag (1954-5) and other unpublished works from previous years. Since 1960, Jones has worked closely with Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc. (ULAE) on various printing techniques and examined and developed existing compositions.

In 1980, the Whitney Museum of American Art paid $ 1 million for Three Flags (1958) the highest price paid for a living artist’s work. Flag (1958) was sold privately to hedge fund billionaire Stephen Cohen in 2010 for $ 110 million.

Hence the gallery became home to the largest number of Jones’ works held in a single institution ;. Among his most iconic works and many others at two sites will be a wide range of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures from 1954 to the present.

Here there are two Jasper Johns – one who cannot contain the past whose memories seem to flow into his paintings like water from a broken tap and the other who does things with a cold indifference – and both are present in his work. There is Jasper Jones, who wrote a letter to criticism critic Hilton Kramer in 1959 which he did not include in his work.

Jones participated only in two art fairs : the: Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain in Paris in the 1970s and Art Basel in Switzerland in the 1970s. But Togodge did not suspect that his drawing attracted the attention of a famous artist until the work was completed. At the invitation of the artist Togodge and her parents, Rita Delgado and Jeff Ruskin (who also teach at her school) went to see the painting in Jones’ studio.

After discovering what happened to the artist and his father Brendan O’Connell (father of a close friend of Togodg), he challenged Jones, an internationally renowned artist who copied children’s works without permission. He suggested that Jones set up a fund to support Togochi and other young Cameroonian athletes and artists. Jasper Jones faces legal challenges before holding the current dual retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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