March 2017 - Jasper Johns

4^th and 5^th Grade

Project Title: Jasper Johns

Description:

• Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American Neo Dadaist and pop artist who chose to paint familiar images; flags, maps, numbers, letters so people would notice them.  Many of his ideas came form images he recalled from elementary school.  To force viewers to look at numbers and letters a new way, he presents them as visual objects.  4th and 5th graders used stencils plus water soluble oil pastels to complete this piece.

Samples of Jasper Johns' artwork:

Map (1961)

                                

Numbers in Color (1959)

Vocabulary:

• Pop art
• encaustic technique
• symbols

Resources:

• internet images
• article from Scholastic Arts 2007 about Jasper Johns

Materials:

• tagboard
• water soluble oil pastels
• stencils

Examples of student artwork: