Sentences with phrase «known flag paintings»

Johns's well - known flag paintings, which he began making in the mid-1950s, use the brushy paint application common to Abstract Expressionist painters of that time, sometimes layered over collaged newspaper clippings, simultaneously affirming and negating the hand of the artist.

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Thus, at first, no matter what I proposed — a new bus route, a paint job for the flag pole, or a curriculum — I was ignored.

She can bow in three different ways, play basketball, steal a checkbook out of a pocket, wave a flag, play piano, paint abstract art, count, say «yes» and «no,» smile, stick out her tongue, honk a horn, fetch a hat from another person and bring it to me and then take it back, square up and stretch out, stand on a pedestal, lie down, etc..

Jasper Johns, pictured in his New York City studio in 1964, was known for transforming common objects like flags, numerals and archery targets into unsettling paintings.

Ofili's flag first flew above Tate Britain in 2010 when the gallery mounted a major show of the artist whose paintings now cost hundreds of thousands of pounds and who is still best known for his controversial use of elephant dung.

Jasper Johns, the influential American artist known for his paintings of flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers, is to be the subject of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

He was able to do just that in this print, working from a photograph of his own painting Two Flags (1973), and bringing a genuinely unique energy and intensity to a medium known for cool flatness.

At his first solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1958 and subsequent exhibitions, he exhibited his flag paintings as well as other «things the mind already knows»: targets, cans, numbers, and letters.

The artists do not aim to create an original; rather they follow in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, who famously designated ordinary mass - produced objects as «Readymade» works of art, and Jasper Johns, who, in the late 1950s, chose to paint images «the mind already knows,» such as targets and the American flag.

Johns is best known for his painting Flag (1954 — 55), which he painted after having a dream of the American fFlag (1954 — 55), which he painted after having a dream of the American flagflag.

One of the most important living American artists, Johns is known for his paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and letters.

Moving from South Carolina to New York in 1949, he first became known for his paintings featuring the American flag (eg.

Often called the greatest living artist in America, if not the world, Jasper Johns created a bridge between painting and what was to become conceptual art with his mid - «50s portraits of what «the mind already knows» — maps, flags, targets, and other flat images that could be rendered so faithfully in paint that there was barely any sunlight between the depictions and what was depicted.

Johns painted Flag, his best known work, in 1954, when he was just 24 years old.

Opening: «Space Between» at Flag Art Foundation Drawing on a mix of established and lesser - known artists working with abstraction, Louis Grachos, the highly - respected director of The Contemporary Austin, and FLAG Art Foundation's Stephanie Roach present a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that defy categorization, instead falling into the space betwFlag Art Foundation Drawing on a mix of established and lesser - known artists working with abstraction, Louis Grachos, the highly - respected director of The Contemporary Austin, and FLAG Art Foundation's Stephanie Roach present a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that defy categorization, instead falling into the space betwFLAG Art Foundation's Stephanie Roach present a group exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that defy categorization, instead falling into the space between.

The Sunday Times has learnt that the works that have caught their eye include paintings by Jasper Johns, best known for his iconic 1950s images of the American flag, and Ed Ruscha, one of the originators of pop art, which belong to the National Gallery in Washington.

Later American Impressionist painters included: the Pittsburgh artist Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926); the Bostonian Childe Hassam (1859 - 1935) best known for his «flag paintings»; the Munich - trained portraitist William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916); J. Alden Weir (1852 - 1919) who excelled at landscape, still lifes and flower paintings; Theodore Robinson (1852 - 96), a close friend of Claude Monet; the Cincinnati artist John H Twachtman (1853 - 1902); Thomas Dewing (1851 - 1938) the interior and landscape painter, and follower of Aestheticism; and John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925).

Johns (born in 1930) made his breakthrough on the American art scene in the latter half of the 1950s, with paintings based on widely known symbols like the American flag, targets, numbers and letters.

Castelli: We [Castelli and his wife] went down to his studio and there I was confronted with an astonishing sight: paintings of flags, red, white and blue, plain, and a big all - white one; targets with plaster casts above them; alphabets; numbers; and all in a material I hardly knew — encaustic.

Johns, 80, has long been associated with the abstract expressionist movement and is best known for his paintings depicting American flags and bullseye targets.

For instance, one painting known as College Fund features a small model of a taxi cab resting on a suitcase with a tip jar filled with coins in the backseat as the shadow reflects onto the wall, while a similar piece titled Freedom Rider depicts a child's bicycle with one wheel in the front, and two wheels in the back, with an American flag sticking out from the backseat.

I don't know if it was the way the Elvis impersonator sporting a red, white and blue polyester jumpsuit, singing «Hunka Hunka Burnin» Love» made the whole crowd wan na dance, or if it was the kids with American flags painted on their cheeks, throwing candy to other kids from elaborately decorated floats that did it - but it really got me.