Pop Art: Though Jasper Johns

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Pop Art Though Jasper Johns

• By McCall Blake

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What is pop art?

• Pop art is more of an attitude than a style.
• They made you look at the subject matter in a way
  you never thought of looking at them before.

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Early Years

• Born in Augusta Georgia, 1930
• Attended the University of South Carolina
• Moved to New York
• Destroyed work

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Famous Paintings

• Green Target
• Noticed by Leo Castelli, 1957
• From then on his work was looked for and admired

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Famous Paintings

• Numbers in Color
• Uses complementary colors
• Came out when Johns was 20
• Johns use of color and subject matter keeps
  your eye constantly moving over the surface with
  no place to focus or rest. -- Gerald F. Brommer

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Famous Paintings

• False Start, 1955
• White Flag, 1955
• Seasons, 1986

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Bibliography

• Brommer F. Gerald
• Discovering Art History
• Worcester, Massachusetts
• Davis Publishing Inc.
• 1997
• Libby M. Wendy
• Using Art to Make Art
• Albany, New York
• Thomson Learning
• 2000

• Pop Art
• Encyclopedia of Artists
• 2000
• Jasper Johns
• American Masters http//www.pbs.org/wnet/amer
  icanmasters/database/johs_j.html
• 4/5/05