JASPER JOHNS

PRESENTATION’S

PLAN

I – JASPER JOHNS, WHO IS HE ?

• A few words about the artist

• His influences

• His major works

II – FOCUS ON TWO PIECES OF HIS WORK

• « Flag » 1954-55

• « False Start » 1959

A FEW WORDS ABOUT

THE ARTIST AND HIS

INFLUENCES

• Born in 1930, in Georgia

• Grew up in South Carolina

• American contemporary artist

• Famous for his series of paintings

(Flag, Target, Number)

• Meeting with Robert Rauschenberg in

New York City

• Influenced by Marcel Duchamp and

an Austrian philosopher, Ludwig

Wittgenstein

HIS MAJOR WORKS

Three Flags (1958)

Target (1974)

HIS MAJOR WORKS

Map (1961)

Zero-Nine (1958-59)

« FLAG » 1954-55

Flag (1698) White Flag (1955)

« FALSE

START »

1959