Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: False Start

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
False Start
Image View: 
Overall view without frame
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-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.