Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is widely accepted as one of the most significant and influential artists to emerge in America in the post‑war period. Beginning his career in New York at a time when the modern art scene was dominated by the formidable paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns forged a unique artistic path that echoed the painterly qualities of his contemporaries whilst working with materials and themes in a manner that questioned the very nature of art.