Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Corpse and Mirror II

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Corpse and Mirror II
Image View: 
Detail of brushstrokes and the seams of the joined canvases
Creator: 
Jasper Johns (American painter, born 1930)
Location: 
exhibition: Broad Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Location Note: 
Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' (Exhibition, February 10-May 13, 2018)
Date: 
1974-1975 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
American
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
Oil paint; sand on four joined canvases, with artist's painted frame
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
146.4 cm (height) x 191.1 cm (width)
Subjects: 
contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; pattern; cross-hatching; mirror-image
Description: 
In his work from 1972 to 1983, Jasper Johns used a distinct arrangement of crosshatched marks, traditionally considered a graphic method of adding depth and volume to an image or conveying the illusion of light in space. Johns first glimpsed this pattern on a passing car, recalling: "I only saw it for a second, but knew immediately that I was going to use it. It had all the qualities that interest me-- literalness, repetitiveness, an obsessive quality, order with dumbness, and the possibility of a complete lack of meaning." Collection of the artist. (Source: Art Institute of Chicago [website]; http://www.artic.edu/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-CAM2-A02
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.