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Jasper Johns Paintings, Jasper Jones, Neo Dada, Claes Oldenburg, Number Art, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Year 8, Willem De Kooning

The title of this painting is a double entendre: it describes the numerical subject of the painting as well as the manner in which the viewer literally sees each number through the others. One of eleven paintings of superimposed numbers that Jasper Johns made in 1960-1961, the genesis of this work can be traced to the mid-1950s, when the artist began painting single numbers using commercial stencils. Johns has remarked that he was drawn to everyday signs and symbols as subjects, since their…

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Jasper Johns Paintings, Jasper Jones, Neo Dada, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Diebenkorn, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Number Art, Joan Mitchell

Because well, it's Jasper Johns. I was lucky enough to see an exhibit of his at the Modern Art half of the Smithsonian once in high school. And back then I really didn't get it. Now that I'm a little older and wiser, I understand that he's kind of a big deal. Johns paints things that are extremely familiar, like numbers and letters and the American flag. In that way, he was influenced by the da da movement. I guess, in that way, his work was also kind of similar to my last artist post. He…

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Jasper Jones, Richard Hamilton, James Rosenquist, Neo Dada, Eleven Eleven, Comic Layout, Abstract Black And White, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, Target (Black and Gray), 1974. Color screenprint, sheet (sight, irregulr): 38 1/2 × 27 in. (97.8 × 68.6 cm) Plate (sight, irregular): 31 × 25 3/4 in. (78.7 × 65.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.148. © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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