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Jasper Johns was a painter, sculptor, and a printmaker. He was one of America's best known post abstract expressionists and minimalists. When people think of Jasper Johns they usually think about pictures of flags and numbers. Johns completed his first flag painting in 1955.
He was born in Allendale, South Carolina and grew up with no formal art training but did attend the University of South Carolina for two years. In 1949, he moved to New York City but was drafted into the Army. Returning to New York, he began experimenting with styles and "Flag", dated 1955 earned him his first major attention. It was revolutionary in that it was simply a geometric design on a large canvas, separate from any emotion. Over the next few years, Johns used the same approach with other images that were traditionally symbols. In 1956 to 1957, he added numbers to his paintings. In 1960, he did his first lithographs. In 1959, his work became very abstract with very bold colors with letters and other......

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