“So Johns kind of goes, ‘Here sell them.’ And of course they did and made a fortune.” “The great story about Johns is he produces a series of bronze beer cans that are a response to his dealer saying that this dealer could sell some beer cans that de Kooning had thrown away,” Ward said.
Johns, who’s also claimed by abstract expressionism and pop art, is best known for his depictions and recreations of the American flag. “People like (Jasper) Johns who were playing around, not only with popular culture, but using some irony.” “For an art historian, Neo-Dada is a very specific term for a few artists in the ’60s,” Art History lecturer Tara Ward said in an interview with The Daily.
