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Stephen Chase

@stephenchase.bsky.social

January reading:
Some decent books, a few very good, and one early contender for best book read this year...
(Clue: it's the top one)

Everything Will Swallow You by #TomCox
The Employees by #OlgaRavn
Hypothermia by #AlvaroEnrigue
The Stone Door & Down Below by #LeonoraCarrington
Stolen by #AnnHelenLaestadius
Small Things Like These by #ClaireKeegan
Dancers on a Plane by #JohnCage #MerceCunningham #JasperJohns

February 1, 2026 at 10:40 AM

Micheal McLaughlin

@michealpmclaughlin.bsky.social

Flag, 1954. Jasper Johns.
#jasperjohns #america #moma

1954 Jasper Johns Painting entitled ‘Flag’ of American flag at MoMA

January 24, 2026 at 9:47 PM

Agave

@barbarahj.bsky.social

Jasper Johns, “Between the Clock and the Bed,” 1982–83. Encaustic on canvas, in 3 parts (joined).Credit...Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Janice Chung for The New York Times
#art #abstract #jasperjohns

January 23, 2026 at 10:55 PM

Agave

@barbarahj.bsky.social

Jasper Johns, “Weeping Women,” 1975. Encaustic, charcoal and collage on canvas, in three parts.
Credit...Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Janice Chung for The New York Times
#art #abstract #jasperjohns

January 23, 2026 at 10:52 PM

dave.feediverse

@dave.feediverse.org

Jasper Johns @JasperJohnsArt #artontwitter #jasperjohns.

Great art on Bluesky (@art.feediverse.org)

Jasper Johns @JasperJohnsArt #artontwitter #jasperjohns

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January 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM

Great art on Bluesky

@art.feediverse.org

Jasper Johns @JasperJohnsArt #artontwitter #jasperjohns

January 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM

jenniferauh.bsky.social

@jenniferauh.bsky.social

The bul's eye circle in my painting references #JasperJohns' painting at the C Art Institute titled Target. The circle signifies eternity in #Pueblo symbolism. I inclusion is a nod to my great-great-grandmother Nampeyo #Hopi s visit to C for the 1893 World's Fair-her work is (5).

January 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM

R U H L

@ruhl.nyc

Jasper Johns, “Painted Bronze”, 1960; oil on bronze #JasperJohns #ContemporaryArt” ⁦‪@MuseumModernArt‬⁩ #RUHLNYC

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January 3, 2026 at 3:46 PM

Arthur David Spota

@adaspota.bsky.social

Jasper Johns ~ Winter
(from The Four Seasons series, 1986)

#JasperJohns #PopArt #AbstractArt #Winter

December 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM

twistopherrobin.bsky.social

@twistopherrobin.bsky.social

#Art #JasperJohns

December 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM

The Global Shorelines project

@comshorelines.bsky.social

One of my favourite artists. I wrote about elements of his work in my Degree thesis, way back in 1980/1.
Also a legend of American art (at 96), and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

#JasperJohns

December 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM

SCHWULISSIMO

@schwulissimo.bsky.social

Museum Ludwig - Fünf Freunde #MuseumLudwig #FünfFreunde #JohnCage #MerceCunningham #JasperJohns

Museum Ludwig - Fünf Freunde

Das Museum Ludwig widmet sich mit einer Ausstellung dem Netzwerk von John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg und Cy Twombly.

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December 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM

gregorg

@greg.org

my favorite part so far of Gagosian doing a survey of Jasper Johns crosshatch paintings as a 50-yr commemoration of their debut at Castelli, as the last show (frfr?) at 980 Madison, which opened with Johns maps, is the hashtag just chillin' at the bottom of the press release: #JasperJohns

December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM

World Of Art By Sue

@worldofartbysue.bsky.social

JASPER JOHNS (born 1930), “Three Flags”, 1958. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City US.
Johns painted his first American flag painting in 1954; it was to become one of his most enduring motifs.
#arthistory #art #PopArt #JasperJohns

So far this month, we have looked at Pop Art that broke boundaries by using mass media images of consumer products and celebrities as a means of raising the mundane to high art. Johns took the common flag image and endowed it with new meaning as an art object. He painted “Three Flags” on three separate canvases, then stacked them with the smallest canvas on top so that it is closest to the viewer. He used one of his favorite techniques, encaustic, which is a mixture of pigment in warm wax (he kept the mixture on a hot plate while creating the painting). The encaustic gives the canvas a textural quality, and a softness of hue, in which every brushstroke becomes visible. Johns was fond of repeated motifs – flags, targets, numbers, to name just a few – which can read as obsession when all of the paintings are together in one location. Johns’ flag becomes more than a symbol (although it does not lose its patriotic symbology); we now also see its geometry and design elements as part of a work of art. These flags have 48 stars because the states of Alaska and Hawaii were not yet part of the United States in 1958.

December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM

The Global Shorelines project

@comshorelines.bsky.social

Happy thanksgiving to all my American cousins. Here's some quintessentially American art to celebrate, from previous gallery visits.
Stay safe out there people.

#art #gallery #USA #painting #printmaking #JasperJohns #JacksonPollock #JamesEdmundAllen #ThomasHartBenton