Date: 1990
Size: 18 x 26 inches
Artist: Jasper Johns
About this poster: This vintage exhibition poster was produced for a show of Jasper Johns's work in Minnesota in 1981.
According to his biography, in the 1950s "As the art world was searching for new ideas, outside the purely abstract style, the early paintings of maps and flags which Jasper Johns created, took in both praise and ridicule by certain critics in the art world. The early works he created, had a sense of craft work, and a small expression of the extra-ordinary and absurd. The process to create the images, were the meanings were found. Much of the work Jasper Johns created, was extremely new to the museum goers and art lovers, as the simple form of designing flags, and large numbers in print, was something which was never seen before. The distinct style, and the simplicity behind it, eventually captured the interest of museum goers. [...] Together with Rauschenberg and several Abstract Expressionist painters of the previous generation, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Barnett Newman, Johns is one of most significant and influential American painters of the twentieth century. He also ranks with Durer, Rembrandt, Goya, Edvard Munch, and Picasso as one of the greatest printmakers of any era. In addition, he makes many drawings - unique works on paper, usually based on a painting he has previously painted - and he has created an unusual body of sculptural objects." (http://www.jasper-johns.org)
Overall in very good condition, ready to frame. From a private collection.