![]() In 1955 Rauschenberg settled in the same building in which he lived, Jones, and they saw each other every day, discussing ideas off each other and trying to strength the boundaries of art. They were connected not only romance but a strong friendship and similar creative aspirations. By the time of meeting with Jasper, he managed to marry, to have children, to divorce and to stay a few months in travelling through Europe and North Africa with his then partner artist CY Twombly.Ī partnership of Johns and Rauschenberg was multi-dimensional versatile. As for his personal life, Robert it was much more intense. ![]() Behind both had a military background: Jones – the war in Korea, and Rauschenberg – World and work as a nurse in the hospital. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg have much in common: they were both artists hail from the southern States, both lived in Manhattan, both pretty exhausted unbearable serious abstract expressionism that caused them to look for new ways in art and means of expression. After returning to new York, Jones is once again immersed in the Bohemian artistic life and at a party met a man, who, without exaggeration, changed his life. In 1951, shortly after the outbreak of war in Korea, the artist was drafted and he spent two years at military bases in South Carolina and Japan. Whether this school was not very suitable for Jones, whether he managed to learn everything required, but he stayed here only for one semester. He followed their advice and enrolled in the Parsons School of design. In this period, when in the life of Jasper there was at least some stability, finally took shape and his desire to become an artist.Īfter three semesters at the University of South Carolina teachers began to aggressively encourage Jones to continue training in new York. Few years, Jones lived with his aunt, who taught him at home, and then finally reunited with his mother, who remarried. There was one small Museum in Charleston, which was nothing interesting local artists and paintings of birds". I grew up in South Carolina and did not know any artists. The situation was complicated by the fact that then almost the only example of creativity for Jasper was a painting of his grandmother that hung on the walls: "In my childhood there was very little art. According to Jones, it was rather the desire for some other life different from that to which he was accustomed. Even as a baby, Jasper realized that he likes to draw, but at that time this hobby was synonymous with the desire to one day be an artist. His father left his mother when the future artist was a baby, and up to nine years he lived with my grandmother and grandfather on the paternal side. ![]() The childhood of Jasper Johns at all desire it is difficult to call happy. However, journalists do not leave attempts to talk to the artist, whom many recognize the greatest living. Interviewers who still have the honor to speak with him, you have to work hard to build from very scanty material received a decent text. Jones rarely gives interviews, which in this case says nothing about his personal life prefers not to discuss its methods of work and refuses to somehow decipher the meaning and value of his paintings. Although it cannot be fully attributed to any of these areas. Jasper Johns called by the artist who forged a bridge between abstract expressionismand pop art. In some works he combines painting and sculpture, complementing the paintings of plaster casts and constructions of wood and metal.įamous paintings of Jasper Johns: "Flag", "Three flags", "Zero to nine", "Painted bronze (ale Cans, Ballentin)", "Device". In addition to beeswax as bases for paints in his paintings, Jones used pieces of Newspapers, paper and fabric. The most famous his works created after meeting with the artist Robert Rauschenbergand creativity Marcel Duchamp.įeatures of the artist Jasper Johns: the most famous of his works are considered paintings with flags created in the encaustic technique. A large part of his life in new York and the surrounding area. Jones is one of the main predecessors pop art. May 15, 1930, Augusta, USA) – American artist, who is referred to neo-Dadaists and the conceptualists.
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