Jasper Johns: Regrets
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Jasper Johns: Regrets Details
Review Painter Lucian Freud is the subject of this small gathering of Jasper Johns's latest works, which includes two paintings, two prints, four ink-on-plastic drawings and several pencil sketches. The view of Freud is derived from a black-and-white photo by British photographer John Deakin, one of a series used by yet another artist, Francis Bacon, to create his own portraits of Freud. As he sometimes has throughout his career, Johns utilizes a mirrored doubling of the images as a compositional effect, while transforming certain details of the photo- including its creases, tears, and areas where the picture has been lost- into motifs that are repeated and reworked ober succesive iterations. (Howard Halle Time Out New York)Painter Lucian Freud is the subject of this small gathering of Jasper Johns's latest works. (Howard Halle Time Out New York) Read more About the Author Ann Temkin is an American art curator, and currently the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Christophe Cherix was appointed The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in 2013. His appointment followed a reorganization that merged the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, of which Mr. Cherix had been Chief Curator since 2010, with the Department of Drawings. He joined the Museum’s curatorial staff in July 2007, after serving as curator of the Cabinet des Estampes at the Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva. His specialty is modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the art of the 1960s and 1970s. Read more
Reviews
Slight but excellent gallery catalog showing how Johns developed many pieces of art from a single photograph. I am a fan of his, and found it intriguing to trace the variations in painting, drawing and prints evolving from a photograph of Lucien Freud. A very small area of his career, but a great mind still producing some excellent pieces made a fine exhibition. And a good understanding of the process gone through in this particular case.
