Jasper johns

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By: Jordan Block

Jasper Johnthe Artist

When he was a kid.

Jasper Johns

was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South Carolina

He started drawing when he was at a young

He then found out he wanted to be a artist at age 5

He moved to New York in 1948 so he could be an artist

His face in the painting.

Jasper Johns

I picked Jasper Johns because he is a good artist, I really like to draw and paint, and when I was a little kid I wanted to be a artist.

So his artwork is very inspiring to me. I wish I could drawlike him someday and be just as good as him.

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Numbers and words.

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns is a really good artist.

As Johns became well known and perhaps as he realized his audience could be relied upon to study his new work his subjects with a demonstrable prior existence expanded.

He started being an artist between 20-23.

Jasper Johns

He had a friend that was a artist before he became one and his friend helped him with some of his paintings.

Jasper Johns

Johns' early mature work, of the mid- to late 1950s, invented a new style that helped to engender a number of subsequent art movements, among them Pop, minimal and conceptus art.

Pictures

Do you see anything in these pictures?

If you do don’t say anything.

These are pictures of the United States.

Fast facts

It has been suggested that the American flag in Johns' work is an autobiographical reference, because a military hero after whom he was named, Sergeant William Jasper, raised the flag in a brave action during the Revolutionary War.

More Pictures

Flags.Other pictures that he made.

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