Biography
American artist Jasper Jones works in pop art styles and abstract expressionism. He created the most famous paintings after his acquaintance with the works of Marseille Dushana and the artist Robert Raushenberg. Now Jones is considered one of the most expensive healthy painters, whose works are achieved by transcendental heights.Childhood and youth
Jones was born in the spring of 1930 in the American city of Augusta, but the first years of his biography passed in South Carolina, in Allendeil. The childhood of Jasper is difficult to call happy, the parents diverged when the boy was still no more than the year, and under 9 years old he lived with his grandmother and grandmother in the father's line. From an early age, I had a craving for drawing, but at that time it did not associate this passion with the profession. Just inside there was always a desire to change the life and deal with the case.
A couple of years, Jasper spent the aunt in the house, moved to Mom, only when she married again. Finally, stability appeared in Jones's life, and together with it a desire to be an artist was formed.
In 1947, he went to study at the University of South Carolina, but after a couple of months spent there, the teachers noticed the potential of the young man and began to persist to be advised to translate into New York. He listened to the Council and entered the Parsons Design School, but he was expelled from there in a month.
Personal life
John does not like to give interviews and is rarely found with reporters, and when agrees to talk with journalists, Skupo is responsible for questions, including prefers not to disclose the meaning of its works and sculptures. The same applies to the personal life of the artist.However, the fact that in the years of cooperation with Robert Raushenberg men associated not only creativity, but also romantic relationships, which lasted 7 years have not hidden men. Jones could not create a family, but it seems that it does not make a man, since it is constantly busy in studios.
Creation
In 1951, the guy went to the service in the army, the next 2 years spent on the military bases of Japan and South Carolina. And when he returned to New York, he plunged into creativity again. Life there became a sign there for Jones, his acquaintance with Robert Raushenberg took place, from which Jasper adopted new ideas of modern art and began to embody them.
Two young people united some things: both were born in the southern states, and now they dwell on Manhattan, both of the same tired of the serious style of abstract expressionism, which forced men to look for other ways and means of self-expression in art.
Embed from getty imagesThe partnership of two talented people was versatile, they were associated with strong friendship and creative goals. They even settled in the same building to discuss new ideas every day. Years of cooperation brought many recognized works by artists, but at one moment their relationship stopped. At first they became less likely to see. And when Jones had passed the first triumphal exhibition and the Metropolitan-Museum bought three pictures, men finally stopped communicating.
Try yourself as a sculptor Jasper decided in the 1960s. Bronze sculpture depicting two tin cans from under beer brought a man the greatest fame. Other objects that Created Jones also belong to different household subjects (flashlight, battery, light bulb and other). In the 1980s, the artist began to create collages, and since 1990 he began to attract loneliness and privacy, he almost ceased to give interviews.
In 2011, at that time, President Barack Obama personally rewarded the painter with a medal of freedom. The photo of this moment quickly scattered over the network and added to Jasper new admirers. In 2013, the name of the artist turned out to be in the headlines of newspapers. It happened after his assistant James Mayer was accused of the stealing of the unknown drawings of Jones. The amount of the disappearance was $ 6.5 million in the media, the man did not comment on the situation, he just turned to the police.
Jasper Jones now
Now Jones does not call the starving artist. Profit from those works that are resold by museums and private collectors, it does not have, but this success is well reflected in his new pictures - their value reaches huge amounts.Jasper lives in Sharon, where he has a home and studio, and periodically visits his dwelling on the island of St. Martin.
Painting Jones today is demonstrated at different exhibitions worldwide. In 2019, his picture "Three Flags" visited Orenburg at the "Pop Art" exhibition.
Work
- 1955 - "White Flag"
- 1957 - "Flag on an orange field"
- 1958 - "Three Flags"
- 1959 - "Falstart"
- 1959 - "Figure 4"
- 1960 - "Colored Bronze (banks of Elya Ballentine)"
- 1961 - Map.
- 1961 - "From 0 to 9"
- 1962 - Study for Skin
- 1969 - "Alphabet"
- 1973 - "Flags"