Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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False Start
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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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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1959 (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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stained glass (visual work)
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Work Type 2:
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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 on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; typography or calligraphy; Neo-Dadist
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Description:
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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)
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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-FS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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