![]() We’ll all be Patrick Cariou for fifteen minutes. Though the artist was a high school student, and the work was a copy of a wikipedia diagram of a knee he’d made for his ortho, and the ones doing the calling out were the slightly weird handlers who’d recruited the kid from Africa to play basketball at their rural Connecticut boarding school. Jéan-Marc Togodgue posing with Jasper Johns’ Slice (2020) while visiting the (older) artist’s studio, as photographed by the retired basketball coach at the (younger) artist’s local boarding school, Jeff Ruskinįor his show of new works at Matthew Marks in 2021, Johns’s collaging and appropriating even got him called out for using another artist’s work without permission. Now that you mention it, Johns has been painting trompe l’oeil collages for decades, but the untitled 2017 work above was just one of many to come that incorporated an actual print, photo, or paper element. ![]() What I really did not expect while considering these two artists together, was that they both also work with collage, and with combining multiple mediums into one. Untitled, 2017, 50圆0cm, acrylic over etching with collage on canvas, via Matthew Marks Which are interesting enough on their own, but it is unexpected to find them alongside Jasper Johns, even if both artists are, as Pissaro points out, interested in both appropriation and painting. In the show, “In Dialogue with Picasso,” at Skarstedt, Joachim Pissaro included ten of Prince’s book-sized painting collages. Richard Prince, Picasso works, painting, drawing, and collage on lithograph, as installed at Skarstedt Yet for each series, and the deKooning Paintings he’d made beforehand, Prince used a very similar book/painting/collage/inkjet process. And in 2011-12, Prince overpainted, drew, collaged, and inkjetted his way through a Picasso exhibition catalogue to the point where he had a two-artist show at the Picasso Museum in Malaga, Spain.Īt the moment he made his Picasso works, Prince was being sued over images he’d used in his Canal Zone series. In 1998, Johns decided to paint himself a copy of a Picasso reclining nude that had been printed upside-down in an ARTnews article. In 1958, at the age of 28, Johns was given his first solo show at the Leo. His densely textured paintings of recognisable objects like flags, targets, maps and numbers marked a significant shift away from Abstract Expressionism, which was then the major artistic movement in New York. a spread from the exhibition catalogue for Prince/Pablo Picasso, where Richard Prince collaged his own early drawings over pictures of Picasso paintings Jasper Johns emerged onto the American art scene in the 1950s. I’m still kind of marveling at them being in the same show, but if Richard Prince and Jasper Johns are going to cross paths, it makes sense that it’s at the corner of Picasso reproductions and painting. Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.) American painter and graphic artist who is generally associated with the Pop art movement. Jasper Johns, After Picasso, 1998, collection of the artist, currently on view at Skarstedt
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