He then moved to New York City and studied briefly at the Parsons School of Design in 1949. Johns studied a total of three semesters at the University of South Carolina, from 1947 to 1948.
I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in."
Recounting this period in his life, he said, "In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. He completed Edmunds High School (now Sumter High School) class of 1947 in Sumter, South Carolina, where he once again lived with his mother. He spent time with his father Jasper, Sr and stepmother, Geraldine Sineath Johns, who encouraged his art by buying materials for him to draw and paint. He then spent a year living with his mother in Columbia, South Carolina, and thereafter, several years living with his Aunt Gladys in Lake Murray, South Carolina, twenty-two miles from Columbia. Life īorn in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina, with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed. In 2018, The New York Times called him the United States' "foremost living artist". He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. Johns has received many honors throughout his career, including the National Medal of Arts in 1990 and Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. At multiple times works by Johns have held the title of most paid for a work by a living artist.
Johns's works regularly sell for millions of dollars at sale and auction, including a reported $110 million sale in 2010. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics. Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. This rough method of construction is rarely visible in photographic reproductions of his work. This image illustrates Johns's early technique of painting with thick, dripping encaustic over a collage made from found materials such as newspaper. Detail of Flag 1954–55, Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
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