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Jasper Johns, 29, is the brand-new darling of the art world's bright, brittle avantgarde. A year ago he was practically unknown; since then he has had a sellout show in Manhattan, has exhibited in Paris and Milan, was the only American to win a painting prize at...
Johns paints the American flag in various colors, including the conventional ones. Or he paints targets, or numbers arranged in little squares. Or, tiring of that, he will put a frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the...
The critics have dutifully produced a jargon suitable for such works. Sample (Nicolas Calas in Art News): "Jasper Johns extinguishes the emblematic character of a given sign . . . The target of blue and yellow circles holds the implication that from the marksman's stand it would be seen as a...
A bachelor and onetime commercial artist, Johns works in a neat, spacious loft over a sandwich shop in lower Manhattan, explains his own work more lucidly than the critics have. "It all began," he says, "with my painting a picture of an American flag. Using this design took care of...
It all added up to Dada, the great antiart movement of 40 years ago. Like Johns, the Dadaists deliberately tried to strip art of all sentiment and all significance. They would exhibit a urinal as sculpture, for example, to get across the idea that a statue is no better and...