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Reconstruction, 1959 (encaustic & collage on canvas)

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CVL499838
Image title
Reconstruction, 1959 (encaustic & collage on canvas)
Artist
Johns, Jasper (b.1930) / American
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
encaustic and collage on canvas
Date
1959 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
154x114.5 (framed) 155x111.7 (unframed) cms
Image description

In the encaustic technique, pigment is suspended in wax that is heated and used as paint, but which dries quickly once it is applied to the canvas. The gesture of the artist’s hand and the strokes and drips of the brushwork are thus readily apparent. Here the technique emphasizes the artist’s working process, but it also seems like an ironic commentary on the gestural abstract painting that was common in New York when Jasper Johns created this piece. Johns also applied a piece of extra canvas to the work, folding it into the surface to create a three-part composition. The title suggests that the painting really only has meaning in the mind of the spectator, who “reconstructs” the work according to the basic vocabulary of marks and materials that the artist presents.

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Photo © Cleveland Museum of Art / Sundry Art - American Painting & Sculpture Fund / Bridgeman Images
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20th century / art / Johns Jasper (b.1930) / USA / North America / America (continent) / painter / artist / pop art / composition / monochrome / rectangles
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