Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Corpse and Mirror II
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Corpse and Mirror II
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Image View:
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Detail of brushstrokes and the seams of the joined canvases
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Creator:
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Jasper Johns (American painter, born 1930)
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Location:
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exhibition: Broad Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States)
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Location Note:
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Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' (Exhibition, February 10-May 13, 2018)
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Date:
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1974-1975 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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Oil paint; sand on four joined canvases, with artist's painted frame
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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146.4 cm (height) x 191.1 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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contemporary (1960 to present); nonrepresentational art; pattern; cross-hatching; mirror-image
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-JOHNS-SRT-CAM2-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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