Jasper Johns

- Jasper Johns is an American contemporary artist who works in painting and printmaking.
- Often described as a Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, event hough his subject matter often includes images and objects from pop culture.
- Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers.
- Johns' treatment of the surface is often luch and painterly.
- Famous for incorporating encaustic and plaster relief in his paintings
- His work is like Marcel Duchamp's work in how it's presented.

His paintings remind me of the microscopic photos of germs and parasites, the quick strokes symbolise the vast movement of the specimens and the bright colours resemble their normally unseen beauty. I'd like to experiment with mixed media rather than just producing photos because the mixture between media might complement the idea of thousands of different germs, bacteria and disease being present in our lives each day.