Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
False Start
Image View:
Detail, stenciled names of colors on explosive brushstrokes
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:
1959 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
stained glass (visual work)
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
abstraction; typography or calligraphy; Neo-Dadist
Description:
Private collection. False Start is an explosive picture; it seems to be blowing itself apart in a pyrotechnic display. Brushstrokes are large; color is riotous; composition is not predetermined by a recognizable image. The stenciled labels for colors draw attention, since these are often "wrong" - the word GRAY is painted in red letters on a patch of yellow, and so on. This was a breakthrough work for Johns, giving him a new direction from the flag series. In 2006, private collectors Anne and Kenneth Griffin bought False Start (1959) for $80 million from David Geffen making it the most expensive painting by a living artist. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-FS-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

False Start