Munch’s painting addresses many themes that interested both Munch and Johns throughout their careers, such as the passage of time and aging. Meanwhile, the crosshatching motif was inspired by Edvard Munch’s use of large-scale painted crosshatches in Between the Clock and the Bed (1934). The title alludes to the parlor game “exquisite corpse,” which was popular among the Surrealists. Like many of his works, Corpse and Mirror makes references to art history in both its content and form. This 1976 lithograph, printed on black paper with an offset proofing press, is based upon a painting by the same name executed by Johns in 1974. A single exhibition in two venues, this unprecedented collaboration, Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror, will be the artist’s first major museum retrospective on the East Coast in a quarter century. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror opens Wednesday at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, simultaneously staged with an exhibition of the same name at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. However, the reflection is deliberately imperfect, causing the viewer to perceive the image as chaotic and dizzying. Upon closer inspection, Johns arranged the shapes to look as though the left and right sides of the print were mirror images. EDT Jasper Johns’s Map, 1961, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror in New York and at the Philadelphia. At first glance, the shapes in Corpse and Mirror look jumbled, as if positioned at random. In these works, Johns elevates the crosshatch from an implement of shading in drawing to a stand-alone geometric form, thus ironically flattening the plane of the image. 1930) developed his technique of creating bold, crosshatched marks in a graphic formation in 1972. ![]() Signed, dated, and numbered in white pencil, lower margin Racing Thoughts includes a warning in Frenchabout either falling ice or a broken mirrorand each disruption of symmetry seems to foretell a near-fatal accident. Lord Graystroke John Haber in New York City. About Printer and Publisher: ULAE, West Islip, New York Review by John Haber of Jasper Johns: Gray at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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