Jasper Johns

Johns's targets, flags, and numbers—familiar imagery rendered in encaustic with painstaking textural density—redefined American art in the late 1950s and cleared the way for Pop Art and Minimalism. His 'Flag' paintings and 'Diver' hold auction records above $36 million. His slow, deliberate practice—the same motifs revisited across decades—makes him one of postwar art's most intellectually rigorous figures.

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