JASPER JOHNS ARTWORK PLUS

Inspired by African and Iberian art, he also contributed to the rise of Surrealism and Expressionism. An essential addition to any art lover's collection. Perhaps the most influential artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso may be best known for pioneering Cubism and fracturing the two-dimensional picture plane in order to convey three-dimensional space.

JASPER JOHNS ARTWORK PLUS

The Focus series is an extended primer, a handsome hardback designed to provide an in-depth overview of an artist's life, plus a more concentrated focus on key works from the artist's career to date.'. The newest tranche of introductory monographs is Phaidon Focus. 'Phaidon are adept at packaging up key artists and movements in contemporary art, ensuring each generation has a familiar and forward-thinking way of immersing itself in visual culture. Bring you the essentials in a concise manner.'- It's Nice That

The most iconic artists of the modern day. Never cluttered, but resolutely in-depth, the series manages to condense some of the 20th century's most famous artists' work into small, but by no means diminutive introductions.'- .uk Reflecting on his choice of easily recognizable images, Johns said that he was interested in 'the idea of knowing an image rather than just seeing it out of the corner of your eye.' The map of the United States, in its ubiquity and iconicity, is 'seen and not looked at, not examined.' Preserving the overall proportions of. Coated in a translucent grey plastic with a clear window, the book's pared back approach continues with clean, black typography on a white background.

Designed by Julia Hasting, the Zurich-based design director at Phaidon Press, who manages to create a clean, fresh look that - as art book design should - put the artists' work centre stage. 'Eschewing the heavyweight doorstop format of many art books, these beautiful and compact Phaidon Focus artist monographs are small and slick, and refreshingly affordable. Plenty of colour plates make it brilliantly useful as a reference tool.'- The Sunday Telegraph Each contains a trove of images of artwork and educational focus chapters on themes and techniques.'- It's Nice That Tastefully simple, encased in a plastic cover to protect them from all those crayons and paints that you're sure to whip out in a frenzy of inspiration after browsing these pages. 'Satisfyingly hardback yet not too hefty. The colors are slipping the letters are slipping and sliding-they’re falling.'Excellent introductions to modern masters series.'- The Observer Magazine

I think one of the most immediate things about the experience of looking at Land’s End is a sense of slipping. That imprint of a hand you see on the canvas? That’s his. As an iconic image-comparable to the targets, maps, and letters that he also has depicted-Johns realized that the flag was seen and not looked at, not examined. SFX: OCEANIC SOUND BED which rises and becomes more complex, slowly turns into something less recognizable, evoking a sense of being subsumed by the ocean In 1954, Jasper Johns began painting what would become one of his signature emblems: the American flag. The gray tones, washing over the painting in thick brushstrokes, and thin, fluid drips, have the feeling of a dark and roiling ocean. He named it after a poem by Hart Crane, who wrote a lot about the sea. SFX: Ocean waves crashing on shore below us, as if we are standing on a cliff looking out to sea Foghorn in the distance.Īt the time Jasper Johns made this painting, he said: “I had the sense of arriving at a point where there was no place to stand.” He called it Land’s End. The Collection Target Jasper Johns American Printer Robert Blackburn American Publisher Universal Limited Art Editions American 1960 Not on view Florence and Joseph Singer were discerning collectors of contemporary American prints. About This Artwork One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, Jasper Johns has said, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Jasper johns artwork