Artist: Jasper Johns (1930 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Painting, Printmaking
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Biography:
Born in Georgia, Jasper Johns studied at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He met Robert Rauschenberg upon his arrival in New York City in 1952. The two shared similar views on contemporary culture and expressed their ideas in their artwork, thus developing the Pop Art movement. Johns reformed everyday symbols such as number, letters, and even the American flag, by showing them in a different context. He examines his subjects in many medias including oils, encaustic, print, plaster, and mixed media.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Leo, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1997, Etching on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper
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Usuyuki, 1981 Made by Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Silkscreen; 29-1/2 x 47-1/4 in. (74.9 x
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Cicada, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1981, Lithograph
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Cicada, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1981, Lithograph
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Figure 7, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1955, Encaustic and collage
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Light Bulb, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1968, Wax and acrylic on masonite, metal
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1990, Three-color lithograph on Arches 88 paper
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1992, Eight-color lithograph on Twinrocker paper
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1992, Eight-color lithograph on Twinrocker paper
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Figure 0, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1969, Color lithograph on Arjomari paper
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High School Days, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1968, Wax and acrylic on masonite, mirror
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Gray Alphabets, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1968, Color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
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The Seasons, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1987, Color etching and aquatint on Somerset paper
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The Seasons, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1987, Color etching and aquatint on Somerset paper
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The Seasons, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1987, Color etching and aquatint on Somerset paper
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The Seasons, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1987, Color etching and aquatint on Somerset paper
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Jasper Johns - 0-9 1967 lithograph The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Untitled I, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1976, Four-color etching and aquatint on Auvergne handmade paper
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Target with Four Faces, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1979, Color etching with softground and aquatint on Rives moldmade paper
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Bushbaby, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2004, Ten-color intaglio (etching, aquatint, drypoint, spitbite)
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Study for ’High School Days’, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1964, Charcoal, graphite and paper collage on paper
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1997, Intaglio on gray Moriki chine collé on Lana Gravure
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Flag on Orange, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1998, Etching and aquatint from three plates printed in color on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2000, Linoleum cut printed in five colors from five linoleum blocks cut by the artist, on handmade Kurotani Misumata paper
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Black Numeral Series (0 - 9), Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1968, (Ten) lithographs, each printed from one stone in black and one aluminum plate in warm gray
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Within, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2006, Lithograph and intaglio from (five) lithograph plates and (one) intaglio plate printed in six colors on Kurotani Mitsumata paper
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Jasper Johns - Tennyson 1965 oil on canvas with w Des Moines Art Center American
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Jasper Johns - Ruler 1966 lithograph Hofstra Museum American
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Jasper Johns - Reconstruction 1959 encaustic and collag Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jasper Johns - Usuyuki 1977-78 encaustic and collag Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jasper Johns - Device 1961-1962 oil on canvas with w Dallas Museum of Art American
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Jasper Johns - Near the Lagoon 2002-2003 encaustic on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Two Costumes, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2000, Aquatint, etching and drypoint from four plates printed in five colors in gampi chine collé on Hiromi Misumi paper
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1998, Aquatint, etching, softground and open bite from six copper plates printed in color on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper
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Jasper Johns - Between the Clock and the Bed 1983 encaustic on canvas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
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Jasper Johns Untitled Screenprint 1977
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Flag and Vase, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2001, Linoleum cut from five linoleum blocks cut by the artist, printed in five colors on Kochi Natural Japanese paper torn to sheet size
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Bushbaby, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2006, Etching and aquatint from one plate, printed in Japan White Masa chine collé on Hahnemühle copperplate Bright White paper
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 2005, Color intaglio (drypoint, sugar-lift, spit-bite aquatint) on Fred Siegenthaler (Swiss) handmade leather paper
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Jasper Johns - Corpse and Mirror 1976 lithograph Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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Jasper Johns - Perilous Night 1982 encaustic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Untitled, Jasper Johns (United States, Georgia, Augusta, born 1930) , 1999, Etching, sugarlift, aquatint, spitbite, stipple, scraping, burnishing, sanding and polishing from five copper plates printed in six colors on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper tor
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Jasper Johns Two Maps, I Lithograph printed in gray on black Fabriano paper 1966
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Jasper Johns USA, 1990 Photograph,
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Jasper Johns Target, encased with the book Technics and Creativity: Gemini G.E.L. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1971) Offset lithograph with collage, in white plastic book case with the exhibition catalogue "Technics and Creativity" 1971
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White Flag, 1955 Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal on canvas; H.
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Winslow Homer - The White Rowboat, St. Johns River 1890 Watercolor on paper The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens American
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Ventriloquist II, Keith Brintzenhofe (United States)  (Printer), 1986, Color lithograph
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Ventriloquist II, Keith Brintzenhofe (United States)  (Printer), 1986, Color lithograph
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Ventriloquist II, Keith Brintzenhofe (United States)  (Printer), 1986, Color lithograph
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Jasper Francis Cropsey October oil on canvas 1887
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Anonymous VII - Cambridge - St. Johns Chapel, from the river 1880
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Jasper Francis Cropsey The Gates of the Hudson watercolor on paper 1891
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Jasper Francis Cropsey Under the Palisades watercolor on wove paper circa 1891
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Jasper Francis Cropsey View of Greenwood Lake, New Jersey oil on canvas 1845
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Adam Pynacker, Dutch, 1622-1673 Landscape with Goats about 1660 Oil on canvas 96.9 x 84.5
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Alphabet, Charles Ritt , 1969, Embossing on Special Arches paper
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Alphabet, Charles Ritt , 1969, Embossing on Special Arches paper
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Jasper Francis Cropsey Autumn on the Hudson oil on canvas mounted on panel 19th - 20th century
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Figure One (from Black Numeral Series), James Webb (1825 - 1895) , 1968, Lithograph on Copperplate Deluxe paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor
Motherwell's works are based on poems by Rafael Alberti, and Johns' are collaborations with novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett. Both artists have played dominant roles in the development and maturation of twentieth-century contemporary a...
National Gallery of Art: Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades
The exhibition opens in conjunction with The Unfinished Print and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
Whitney Museum of Art: The Draftsman's Colors: Fourteen New Acquisitions from Johns to Chong
The artists' avoidance of strong color allows the viewer to concentrate on their pure draftsmanship. Included are drawings in various ...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections

The exhibition draws from the Broads' personal collection and the holdings of The Broad Art Foundation. Developed over the past 30 years, these collections span four decades and include some of the most emblematic works in the history of postwar a...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Pop Impact - From Johns to Warhol
Considered controversial when it first emerged in the 1950s and 60s, Pop Art broke the rules by shunning abstraction in general and returning to recognizable subject matter, yet the subjects Pop artists chose—Coke bottles, billbo...
Dallas Museum of Art: Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper Comp
Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition debuted there and traveled to the Yale University Art Gallery before its appearance in Dallas. This presentation marks the first ti...
Columbia Museum of Art: Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Jasper Johns, Part II
Visitors to the Museum's permanent collection galleries will find four Focus Galleries dedicated to changing installations of works not ordinarily on view - three on the second floo...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
Jasper Johns first came to public attention over 50 years ago, with his now-famous images of flags, numerals and impersonal household objects, or - as he described them - “things we already know”. Radically different from the prevailing Abstract E...
Cambridge Galleries: Joanna Strong: flourish
Newfoundland native Joanna Strong studied at York University in Toronto and Memorial University in St. John’s, before going to the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design to concentrate on studio work. After...
Detroit Institute of Art: Beyond Big: Oversized Prints, Drawings and Photographs
In the last half of the 20th century, advances in technology have permitted artists to create prints and photographs of unprecedented scale. With equipment and paper now being produced in sizes that rival dimensions that only paintings and some dr...
Milwaukee Art Museum: POP Impact: from Johns to Warhol
Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol looks at Pop imagery from different perspectives, encouraging visitors to examine the movement's defining characteristics elements such as scale and seriality as well as such atypical Pop approaches as the...
Royal West of England Academy: Tracing Light: Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi, Myfanwy Johns and Michael Shaw
Katayoun Pasban Dowlatshahi presents abstractions that are essentially light drawings using the patterns created by sunlight traced onto glass and paper by applying a unique photographic process. They present strikingly poetic meeting points b...
Don O’Melveny Gallery: 3 : A Painting Exhibition
The astonishingly beautiful work of Michael Moon demonstrates how use of color becomes an alchemist’s palette. “Consciously or not, there is always a conversation among the tools and materials used and myself. The result, when successful, is a ...
Inverell Art Gallery: John Weeronga Bartoo : Dreamtime Walkabout
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John Weeronga Bartoo
Title: 452 Barwon Rockwells
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 70 cm
Height: 50 cm
Depth: 5 cm
Price: US$ 960

Phoenix Art Museum: Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection
This exhibition has been organized by the Portland Art Museum and is made possible by UBS. One of the foremost collections of contemporary art in the United States, The UBS Art Collection, formerly The PaineWebber Art Collection, began in 1971 wi...
Columbia Museum of Art: POP IMACT! From Johns to Warhol
Included in the exhibition, are icons of the '60s by 17 notable artists including Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselman, Robert Indiana, Marisol, Edward Ruscha, George Segal and Wayne Thiebau...
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Appleton Museum of Art: Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend
The collection was started in 1985 with the intention on fulfilling Van Gogh’s hope of forming a community of artists in Arles, France. Little evidence remains of Van Gogh’s residence in the city. None of the paintings made during Van Gogh’s “Arle...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
DeBary Hall: Cecil Herring: Rediscovering Florida
From Herring's Artist statement- " 'Find your bliss,' the great Philosopher- Anthropologist Joseph Campbell advised. Campbell was right. I found my 'bliss' in 1956, 49 years ago. I have loved every minute I have spent creating art works and to t...
Museen der Stadt Wien: Dreams 1900-2000: Art, Science and the Unconscious
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Don O’Melveny Gallery: Double Over-Head III: Summer Group Show
Among the artists in the exhibition is absolutearts.com Premiere Portfolio Member, Edem Elesh. Elesh has been a Member since 2003. Edem states about his work, "My work is autobiographical in nature. I am interested in examining the miracle of...
Pouch Cove Foundation: Residency Opportunity for Visual Artists
The Pouch Cove Foundation has been funded by the Baird Family in an effort to assist visual artists experience our unique culture and in turn, have those artists show the province to the world. To date we have hosted artists from all provinces ...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976
Beginning in the 1940s, Pollock and de Kooning created paintings and sculptures that catapulted American art onto the international stage. In magazines as diverse as Partisan Review, The Nation, ARTnews and Vogue, Greenberg and Rosenberg wrote inc...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art
Organized thematically, the exhibition addresses some of the prevailing subjects that preoccupied Pop artists, including mass media, consumer culture, politics, and erotica. The exhibition begins with proto-Pop examples by artists such as Ja...
Perry Rubenstein Gallery: Sturtevant: Push and Shove
The exhibition will include an installation of Marcel Duchamp’s 1200 coal bags, approximately ten ready-made objects, and the film Nude Descending the Staircase produced in 1967. In the 24th Street space, the artist will premiere a seven-channel v...
Cleveland Museum of Art: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
The finest impressions by Rembrandt (1606–1669), one of the most experimental and greatest printmakers, are now exceedingly rare, so that it is important to take advantage when an opportunity appears. A beautiful impression of The ...
Takasaki Museum of Art: Reinhardt Sobye: Part of the Tomio Isahai Collection
Reinhardt Sobye states about is work: "The prevailing attitude in modern culture is that every individual is a world in his/her own right, a world from which all other's are excluded. This is a major lie. The truth is that we are each other's worl...
Living: Colour: John Nolan
John Nolan was born in 1958, in Dublin, Ireland.His exuberant modern figurative style combines bold outlines with bright exotic colours. His interpretation of various motifs (Fish, Landscape, Flowers, Birds, Human Figure, Still Life, Trees) transm...
Shire Pottery Gallery and Studios: Lightplay: Work by John Fieldhouse
After two highly successful shows at the Shire Pottery Gallery John Fieldhouse returns to Alnwick for his third solo exhibition. Those who know Johns work well have been keenly awaiting these works, curious to see how he has met the challenge of d...
Contemporary Arts Center: Slide Show
Slide Show is a series of 18 installations that range from single-carousel pieces to more cinematic presentations created with multiple projectors. Through the remarkably simple technology of a slide projector and color transparencies, artists fou...
Contemporary Arts Center: Kendell Geers: Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Geers employs a fully integrated approach to art and life calling into question his own conflicted ancestry as a white South African. He has exhibited extensively around the world, most notably he has participat...
Grounds for Sculpture: The Sculptors Guild: A Group Exhibition
Sculptures by the following contemporary artists are on view: David Boyajian, Leonard Cave, Ann Chahbandour, Joan Danziger, David E. Davis, Fritz Dietel, Jo o Duarte, Nick Edmonds, Lin Emery, Joseph Fucigna, Don Gale, Irene Gennaro, Lucy Hodgso...
Grounds for Sculpture: Last Chance! The Sculptors Guild: A Group Exhibition

Sculptures by the following contemporary artists are on view: David Boyajian, Leonard Cave, Ann Chahbandour, Joan Danziger, David E. Davis, Fritz Dietel, Jo o Duarte, Nick Edmonds, Lin Emery, Joseph Fucigna, Don Gale, Irene Gennaro, Lucy Hod...
Contemporary Arts Center: Sanford Biggers: both/and not either/or
For the CAC, Biggers will produce a new exhibition environment entitled “Both/And Not Either/Or.” The exhibition will focus on a bell choir ceremony in Japan where he explores the connection between contemporary and ancestral.  Biggers’ exhibition...
Bayly Art Museum: Charlottesville Collects
“We think our visitors will be both surprised and delighted to see the wonderful works in Charlottesville Collects,” says Jill Hartz, director of the Bayly Art Museum. “We are thrilled to share these works with the public, and are so grateful ...
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art: Re-Newal: Contemporary Art Using Wax
About encaustics Enkaustikos-the name means "to burn in." The ancient Greeks gave the art of painting with hot beeswax more than a name, they gave it a form. The exact timeline is unclear, but at a point some three thousand years ago, Greek sh...
National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
Leslie Sacks Fine Art: New Acquisitions: Part Two Contemporary Art
This literal and sometimes even literary approach is really at the heart of contemporary art, much of which is referred to as “post-modern.” An in depth discussion of post-modernism is well beyond the scope of this short writing, but let it suffic...
Contemporary Arts Center: Nothing Compared to This: Ambient, Incidental and New Minimal Tendencies in Current Art
Nothing Compared to This looks at the works of artists who occupy and control space by subtle, often indirect, means. The most salient distinction of today’s art in this vein, however, is that it is often not meant to be contemplated, or even dire...

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