They were right in their judgment that Johns is a hermetic artist.Ĭatenary did not occasion any of the critics to reevaluate their earlier Retrospective were impenetrable, and took that as further proof that In New York since his 1996 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Little that it was the artist's first solo exhibition of paintings 1967) There is no death There isĬritics responded harshly and negatively to Jasper Johns'Ĭatenary, an exhibition of related paintings, drawings, and prints at Whenever they mention culture, I reach for my Brownie. Is not nor has ever been a hermetic artist. Contrary to what has been repeatedly said about him, he View that he is aware of, and has returned to frequently, each time with Underlying preoccupation with a visual perception in his work. In connecting a sculpture Johns made in 1960 toĪ painting he completed in 2002, I am proposing that there is an "catenary" paintings (1997-2003), which are his most recentlyĮxhibited body of work. In the second part of this essay, I will largelyįocus on works he did between 19, as well as on the
In the first part, I focus on work that the artist made between 1960 andġ963, as well as make connections between what he did before and after Will be published in a forthcoming issue of the American Poetry Review. This is the first part of an essay on Jasper Johns.
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