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Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns transformed familiar signs, symbols, and everyday forms into some of the most intellectually rigorous works of postwar art. His prints and paintings balance experimentation, control, and a remarkable sensitivity to surface.

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Jasper Johns (born 1930) is an American painter and printmaker whose work helped shift the direction of contemporary art in the second half of the twentieth century. By revisiting flags, targets, numerals, crosshatches, and other recurring motifs, Johns created a body of work that continues to shape the language of modern art.

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