jasper johns

Jasper Johns Wall Art Prints

A fly-by-night dream turned out to play a key role in the then-upcoming triumph of Jasper Johns in the 50’s of the last century. By mingling several, not-so-common techniques for the time, unfolding antic encaustic method merged with traditional painting and newsprint, the Georgia-born American artist exposed to view of the society the Star Spangled Banner in a somewhat ground-breaking way. Being acclaimed an insignia of the Artist’s whole activity, the Flag represented a kind of stepping stone for disengaging the evolution of art from convincing Abstract Expressionism towards the prevailing tendency in the 60’s that aimed at promoting popular culture. Conveying a couple of significant features assigned later to Pop Art, Johns work yet embodies a sequel to Dadaism, according to his urgent desire, intending to showcase commonplace items in a different and somehow refreshing context. Many explanations from an art critic’s point of view can be applied to these objects that, never receiving the Master’s further clarifications, have come to the top anew. The regalia of the American nation, kept at Moma, appears to unveil not only a painted symbol but also an intricate image of the Country’s millennial history under its multi-layered harsh texture, making it a powerful work today. Conventional and unsophisticated material, displayed through his works, gave carte blanche to the Artist to focus on the artistic production itself, authorizing at that the audience to pursue additional conceptual interpretations beyond his works. The national-oriented subject matter, leaking into various flag representations (Three Flags, White Flag, Maps), along with frequently executed targets appeared to be insufficient for Johns to reveal his own self. Maintaining Neo-Dadaistic approach he constantly started moving towards abstraction-related techniques and views that came on top in Johns’ multiple works accompanied by a ruler. Being tightly allied with the Artist’s childhood recollections and representing a tool for expressing displeasure or “revolt”, this somewhat balancing instrument added unexpected significance to the abstract paintings of this period, still reflecting “things the mind already knows”. From this moment on, Johns swiftly changed his direction and joined abstract expressionism having equally national roots. The anti-figurative aesthetic let him totally “subdue” the contents of his works in favor of outward communication.

“Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it,” addressed once Johns the artistic society. Conceivably, he had in mind creating ‘Something Resembling Truth.

Two months ago, the exhibition of Jasper Johns’, banding together the works from the past 6 decades, was unclosed in LA. Art lovers once again are given the chance to observe one of the greatest living artist’s contribution to the conceptual aesthetics through the month of June.

Blue Horizon Prints has a number of gorgeous Wall Art Prints of some of Jasper Johns most famous paintings for sale.