Born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns was raised in South Carolina. He attended the University of South with Robert Sauschenberg, his partner, where they developed their ideas on art. In 1958, John Carolina at Columbia, where his art teachers urged him to move to New York, which he did in late 1948. He also briefly attended the Parsons School of Design for a semester. After he served in the army during the Korean War in 1952 and 1953, he returned to New York in 1953. Jasper Johns was heavily influenced by John Cage and is considered as one of the most significant and influential American painters of the twentieth century. Johns explored the contemporary scene was discovered by a gallery owner, Leo Castelli when he was visiting Rauschenberg’s studio. In 1963, Cage and Johns founded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York City. His work is often described as Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art. Though many compilations on pop art include Johns as a pop art artist because of…show more content… In his art, Johns also includes various shapes and marks derived from factual, unimagined things including footprints and handprints, casts of parts of the body and stamps made from objects in his studio, such as the tin can. Jaspers treatment of the surface is luscious. In his painting, Jasper integrates media such as plaster relief and encaustic in paintings. Much like Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns played with opposites, contradictions, paradoxes and ironies. Jasper Johns uses wax to make his sculptures and he works on the surfaces in complex patterns of textures. He layers collaged elements such as impressions of newsprints, keys, a cast of his friend’d foot, and of of his own hand. He then casts the waxes in bronze, then works over the surface, applying the patina, which is a thin layer on the surface of stone, bronze copper et
