Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Map
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Map
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Image View:
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Detail of lower right corner
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Creator:
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Jasper Johns (American painter, born 1930)
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Location:
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repository: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California, United States) 90.17
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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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1962 (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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encaustic and collage on canvas
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Technique:
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collage (technique); encaustic painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); maps; United States map
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Description:
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Jasper Johns’s predominantly gray painting could be classified as an actual map, insofar as it is functionally useful in locating, say, Louisiana or Oregon in relation to one another. But Map is also a painting, the two-dimensionality of the canvas surface corresponding exactly with the flatness of the map it pictures. The question it poses is: how is such a painting to be differentiated from the thing it represents? Map both diagrams the American states and obscures them beneath a sensuous, sometimes splotchy, sometimes dripping application of paint and collaged elements. (Source: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)[website]; https://www.moca.org/)
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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-M62-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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