As a painter, sculptor and printmaker, Jasper Johns (1930 - ) is one of the best-known American’s post-abstract expressionist. His familiar iconic symbols were hailed as essential progenitors of Pop Art and Minimalism. He had his first one-man exhibition in 1958 at the Leo Castelli Gallery and during the year 1961, his picture named “Gray Numbers” won the International Prize at the Pittsburg Biennale. He became famous in the art world almost overnight.

With the description of Kirk Varnedoe: “He is given a grand moment in he sun as the man who comes on the stage in order to slay the demon of Pollock and Kline and De Kooning and open up space for Don Judd and Andy Warhol and Frank Stella, and follows.” (1)

In the middle of 1950’s, Jasper Johns became distant to Abstract Expressionism with a radical decision. He had thought that Abstract Expressionism has macho, aggressive and mannish energy. (2) So he became closer to the less show off feelings and ideas. Using American flag, letters and numbers he constituted an iconography including popular meanings. He described ordinary things, which can easily be obtained.

He started to stick real life objects on his canvas. With this experimental interference, his art seemed to be coded by those objects. It had been over 30 years, when Duchamp’s fountain first appeared. So it means that the spectators had already used to come across the daily life objects.

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