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Jasper Johns

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Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930, Augusta, Georgia, U.S.) is an American painter and graphic artist who is generally associated with the Pop art movement. Johns studied briefly (1947–48) at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and then moved to New York City to pursue a career as an artist. In 1954 he became friends with Robert Rauschenberg, and that year he began his series of paintings of American flags. His first one-man show,...

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