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...origin of Warhol's breakdown of illusionistic subject matter goes back to Robert Rauschenberg, painting in the fifties. Rauschenberg was the first painter to incorporate everyday objects directly into the composition of his paintings. Jasper Johns developed on this approach by focusing on familiar objects individually so that the objects became the center of interest rather than a visual component of a larger composition. Jasper Johns' painting of Three Flags is one of the first completely static paintings in modern art. Its lack of visual movement, makes it an almost emblematic representation. Yet, both Rauschenberg and Johns handle paint with...
...Truth & Love." Lillian Smith was descended from slave-owning Georgia pioneers who fought the Seminoles; she was born and brought up in Jasper, Fla., which could have been Maxwell, the community that she anatomized in Strange Fruit. "We were small-town people who lived in a large, relaxed way," she recalled. After World War I, her father lost his prosperous mills and turpentine stills, moved back to north Georgia to open the state's first private summer camp for young ladies on Old Screamer Mountain outside Clayton...
...American records. Italian coffeehouses proliferate in big U.S. cities, while the Italians wear Jantzen swimsuits on their beaches. Japanese transistor radios, TVs and tape recorders do as well in New York as James Baldwin's novels in Tokyo or Edward Albee's plays in Athens. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol created a pop art derived from the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp; their work, in turn, has influenced such pop artists in Britain as Joe Tilson and Peter Blake...
...Painter Bierstadt traveled to the Athenaeum summers until his death in 1902 to gaze at his masterwork, often dabbing here and there where the paint had flaked. As Fairbanks and his kin passed on, the collection grew through bequests, now numbers 87 paintings and ten sculptures, including works by Jasper Cropsey, William and James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged. The gaslight chandeliers have been electrified, the timeless hush is occasionally broken by construction next door. But the deep-set windows admit the weak northern light just as they did nearly a century...
...house, of course, was the White House, and the occasion was that extraordinary Festival of the Arts. Hung on the walls of a ground-floor White House corridor was Peter Kurd's carefully representational Nito Herrera in Springtime, and right next to that was Avant-Garde Artist Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces, an eerie encaustic on newspaper fixed onto canvas. Down the corridor, in the space traditionally occupied by a life-size portrait of President Millard Fillmore, was Mark Rothko's shimmering abstract Ochre...