{"id":390,"date":"2007-01-08T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-01-08T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T09:26:00","slug":"jasper-johns-this-january-at-the-national-gallery-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Jasper Johns this January at the National Gallery of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/flag2-757771.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/flag2-755103.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jasper Johns is probably the greatest painter in the second half of the twentieth century. That is quite a statement, I know. However when you look at the body of work into the 1970&#8217;s you will see many of the critical approaches stemming from work he pursued. I&#8217;m talking specifically about; Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, and Pattern and Decoration. Artists from each of these movements all owe at least a strong nod to his work, especially when you look at the way he used systems and approaches to breakdown and re construct painting.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965<\/b> goes on view January 28th.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Target is the sponsor of this show. I&#8217;m sure that is no accident. Lets hope that the corporate meat grinder is unable to completely co-opt artwork that has far greater meaning (or lack of meaning, if you know what I mean) as opposed to simply becoming a shill for the newest version of Kmart. (Please don&#8217;t tell me how they love design, because we all know that as soon as that sales ploy ends, the whole &#8220;we love design thing&#8221; is gone)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper Johns is probably the greatest painter in the second half of the twentieth century. That is quite a statement, I know. However when you look at the body of work into the 1970&#8217;s you will see many of the critical approaches stemming from work he pursued. I&#8217;m talking specifically about; Pop, Minimal, Conceptual, and Pattern and Decoration. Artists from each of these movements all owe at least a strong nod to his work, especially when you look at the way he used systems and approaches to breakdown and re construct painting. Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965 goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=390\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jasper Johns this January at the National Gallery of Art<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133,145,159,163],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}