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Entrance to Jasper Johns exhibition2. Mid view of \"By the Sea\" 19613. Man looking at \"Good Time Charley\" 19614. Mid of Jeffrey Weiss, Curator5.SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Weiss, Curator - Contemporary Art/National Gallery of Art:\"The...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Entrance to Jasper Johns exhibition\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid view of \"By the Sea\" 1961\u003cbr/\u003e3. Man looking at \"Good Time Charley\" 1961\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of Jeffrey Weiss, Curator\u003cbr/\u003e5.SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Weiss, Curator - Contemporary Art/National Gallery of Art:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The exhibition is an attempt to interpret the work of Jasper Johns, the first decade of work from 1955 to 1965.  As a result, it is very much not a retrospective, it's not an overview of that period of work.  But, it's an exhibition that focuses on select bodies of work within the larger career during that period of time. The bodies of work are organised around four motifs that overlap and interrelate during this period.  And they are the target, mechanical device that scraps paint,  the stencilled naming of colours and the imprint of the body.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. \"Skin with O'Hara Poem\" painting\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of gallery with still photographic image of Johns working in studio\u003cbr/\u003e8. Still photographic image of Johns standing next to painting \"Periscope (Hart Crane)\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. \"Diver\" painting 1962\u003cbr/\u003e10. Woman looking at \"Fool's House\" 1961 \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Weiss, Curator - Contemporary Art/National Gallery of Art:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Johns is one of the most important American artists of the post-war period partly because he represents the transition of the grand, expansive abstract painting of the Abstract Expressionists generation, Pollock, and Barnet and Newman and Rothko, for example.  Between that generation and the rise of minimal and conceptual art. Johns falls between those two things and in a way he opened the door from things of the past to the new concerns of the younger artists in the 1960s.  In actual fact, a lot of work that followed him was impossible without his example.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e12. Pan of gallery with \"targets\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Tilt up on \"Target with Plaster Casts\" 1955\u003cbr/\u003e14. Detailed view of \"False Start\" 1959\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Weiss, Curator - Contemporary Art/National Gallery of Art:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, I think the show has a lot of important, iconic works in it, including the great \"Target with Plaster Casts\" which is in the first room and the painting called \"False Start\" which is in the third room and is one of John's most famous works.  And, in this room as well, the painting \"Diver\" is considered one of John's major masterpieces, and at the end of the show, the painting call \"Watchman\" is also very famous.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide view of \"Watchman\" 1964\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pull out from upper left corner of \"Watchman\" \u003cbr/\u003e18. Tilt down on painting \"Device\" 1962 19.  Woman looking at \"Land's End\" 1963 20.  Profile of woman contemplating \"Land's End\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Detail of \"Out the Window Number 2\"  1962 22.  Close up of fork in \"Out the Window Number 2\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Man looking at \"Out the Window Number 2\" 1962 \u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeffrey Weiss, Curator - Contemporary Art/National Gallery of Art:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The show, I think, is interesting partly because it introduces work that is less well known, as well.  We've eliminated, because I'm focusing on the four so-called motiffs in the work that relate throughout this period, we've eliminated other things, flags and numbers so to speak that people are used to seeing in John's exhibitions.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e25.  Women standing in front of \"According to What\" 1964 26.  Tilt down on profile view of \"Field Painting\"  1963-1964 27.  Woman standing in front of \"Voice\" 1964-1967\u003cbr/\u003eA new major exhibition of the works by American artist Jasper Johns opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC this week.\u003cbr/\u003eThe exhibition takes a concentrated look at the first decade of Johns' career, from 1955 to 1965.\u003cbr/\u003eJohns is widely recognised as one of the most important American painters of the post-war period.\u003cbr/\u003eThe National Gallery exhibition focuses on Johns' less well known motifs as a way of reassessing the early career of the painter.\u003cbr/\u003eMost people are familiar with the various formulations of \"flag\" and \"numbers\" created by Johns, but there are other motifs that run through his early paintings that are less well known, but establish Johns as a generational link between artists.\u003cbr/\u003eIn 1954, in an attempt to reinvent himself as an artist, Jasper Johns destroyed all the work he had made up to that point.\u003cbr/\u003eHe wanted to start over as an artist and sought a new direction away from abstract expressionism.\u003cbr/\u003eGallery curator, Jeffrey Weiss, says the exhibition is an attempt to interpret the work of JasperJohns' first decade of work from 1955 to 1965.  \u003cbr/\u003eJohns developed a new way of interpreting the narrative in painting by plotting clues within the work.  \u003cbr/\u003eJasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia and grew up in South Carolina.\u003cbr/\u003eHe attended college for three semesters and then went to New York at the age of 19.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter military service, he returned to New York in 1953 and began a serious career as an artist.\u003cbr/\u003eHe is considered as one of the greatest living American painters of all time.\u003cbr/\u003eJohns reduced art-making to a series of quasi-mechanical procedures.\u003cbr/\u003eJohns' distinct way of working made him renowned worldwide.\u003cbr/\u003eThe painter would scrap away paint from the surface often stencilling a name or specific colours onto the abstract painting.\u003cbr/\u003eAs Weiss says Johns work connects those artists of abstract expressionism to those artists of the late 60s and early 70s in American painting.\u003cbr/\u003e'The Target'  is Johns most abstract image.\u003cbr/\u003eRepresenting something anonymous and universal, the familiar target appears in Johns work for nearly a decade.\u003cbr/\u003eJohns also combined his target theme with plaster casts of body parts, thus uniting two of the motifs into one painting.\u003cbr/\u003eHe returns to this theme of combining motifs in his work throughout this period.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the later part of the decade, Johns begins to combine several motifs in large, abstract paintings, representing a complex combination of motifs.\u003cbr/\u003ePaintings such as \"Diver\" and \"According to What\" are compilations of motifs and techniques.\u003cbr/\u003eOne of the most important works during this period, \"Watchman\" combines all three 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