JASPER JOHNS, ideas in paint

Jasper Johns, ideas in paint

60 minutes, 1989

Rick Tejada-Flores

Producer/Director

aired on American Masters PBS

This film provides a rare look at the life, career and inspirations of iconic American master, Jasper Johns, and includes both new and vintage conversations with the painter, as well as seldom seen footage of Johns at work in his studio. The flags, maps and targets that became Johns' trademark are an example of art made of things 'the mind already knows'. 

Johns' relationship with Robert Rauschenberg, who he met after his arrival in New York in the early 1950s, is identified as crucial to the development of Pop Art. Rauschenberg and Johns were redefining what art is and, in so doing, paved the way for people like Warhol and Lichtenstein.

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