
Johns' exploration of semiotics and perception also set the stage for both the Conceptual art movement and the Postmodern movement of the following decades, while his multimedia collaborations with John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Merce Cunningham ushered in the dominance of the performance art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. (127 x 85.7 cm.) Sale: Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction 18196, Wednesday, January 25, 2023, Lot 40068 Estimate: Est.

He effectively laid the foundation for the Pop Art movement's aesthetic embrace of commodity culture with his playfully subversive appropriation of common signs and products. Artist: Jasper Johns (American, born 1930) Title: Two Flags (Whitney Anniversary), 1980 Medium: Lithograph in colors on Arches 88 paper Size: 50 x 33.75 in. By representing common objects and images in the realm of fine art, Johns broke down the boundaries traditionally separating fine art and everyday life. CNN At 91 years old, Jasper Johns is one of the most important living artists today, with auction sales worth tens of millions of dollars and a seven-decade career credited with changing. The radical and inventive art of Jasper Johns (b.1930) continues to influence artists today like few others.

Correction: An earlier version of this story said that Jasper Johns. He did so by initiating a dialogue with the viewer and their cultural context through his artistic exploration of how people see the things around them. 13 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Johns engaged with modernist precedents like the original Dada movement and Abstract Expressionism in order to actively refute the hierarchy of modernism that reduced the aesthetic experience to the distinct material qualities of the medium and removed it from the viewer's life.
