Target - The Art Institute of Chicago
Target. 1961. In the mid-1950s Jasper Johns was searching for a way to move beyond Abstract Expressionism. He took the radical step of destroying his previous work and began painting a set of motifs that included numbers, the American flag, and the alphabet.
Jasper Johns. Target with Four Faces. 1955 - MoMA
In the mid-1950s Johns incorporated symbols such as numbers, flags, maps, and targets into his paintings. Here, he transforms the familiar image of a target into a tangible object by building up the surface with wax encaustic.
Target - The Art Institute of Chicago
Target Date: 1960. Artist: Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) printed by Robert Blackburn (American, 1920-2003) published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
Jasper Johns | Target | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Johns, new to the technique, drew a bull’s-eye-like target on the stone as it was easy to create, symmetrical, and did not need to be drawn in reverse. As both image and object, the target is a motif closely associated with Johns.
Target - The Art Institute of Chicago
Target Date: 1967. Artist: Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) printed by Zigmunds Priede (American, born Latvia, 1935) and Fred Genis (Australian, born Netherlands, 1934) published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
Jasper Johns | Target | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Target. The target has been a central motif in Johns’s work since 1955. He has depicted this deceptively simple image in a range of different media, translating between contexts and materials. Johns’s approach prioritizes process and experimentation over definitive conclusions.
Target with Four Faces (1955): Jasper Johns’ Intriguing Work
May 7, 2020 · Target with Four Faces exemplifies Jasper Johns’ exploration of the new possibilities for painting. Playing with subject matter, symbolism and different techniques, Johns was able to create this engaging, unsettling and thought provoking composition.
Jasper Johns. Target with Four Faces. 1955 | MoMA
Cara Manes: This is Jasper Johns's Target With Four Faces from 1955. You'll immediately recognize its subject: the alternating bands of color, the concentric circles, even a bull's eye. In fact, Johns described the Target as something that “the mind already knows.”
Target with Four Faces (1955) by Jasper Johns – Artchive
Jasper Johns’ Target with Four Faces is a unique artwork that combines painting and sculpture. The piece features a shooting target motif painted in encaustic on canvas, crowned with four miniature plaster casts of the lower half of the same model’s face enclosed in a small wooden box with a hinged lid. The use of familiar objects like ...
Jasper Johns | Target with Four Faces - Whitney Museum
Sep 29, 2021 · Target with Four Faces. Narrator: To make this work, Johns transposed the image of a target directly onto the canvas, and crowned it with four faces cast from life. At the time, the art world was largely dominated by abstract painters. Their work was promoted as being deeply expressive, and completely original.
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