Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Fool's House
Image View:
Detail of top of applied broom, partly painted and labeled
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:
1961-1962 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
assemblage (sculpture)
Work Type 2:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint, Sculp-metal [product name] and charcoal on canvas with objects
Technique:
construction (assembling); oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); Artists' studios; found art; found objects
Description:
Private collection of Jean Christophe Castelli, New York (on loan to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis). In the “fool’s house”, which is also the artist’s studio, a broom becomes a brush, a coffee cup is a vessel for mixing paint, and a dishtowel a paint rag. Hand-written labels identify the objects in an apparently redundant manner which is belied by the multiple roles they play. (Source: Broad Museum [website]; https://www.thebroad .org/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-FP64-A 04
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Fool's House