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The map of the United States, in its ubiquity and iconicity, is "seen and not looked at, not examined." Preserving the overall proportions of the country and the shape of its states, Johns's energetic application of paint subverts the conventions of cartography.
Map is a 1961 oil-on-canvas painting by Jasper Johns. It represents the overall proportions and shapes of the states of the United States and parts of Mexico and Canada, although executed with a more "energetic application of paint" [1] than found in cartography.
Jasper Johns’s predominantly gray painting could be classified as an actual map, insofar as it is functionally useful in locating, say, Louisiana or Oregon in relation to one another. But Map is also a painting, the two-dimensionality of the canvas surface corresponding exactly with the flatness of the map it pictures.
Jasper Johns (Augusta, Georgia, 15 de mayo de 1930) es un pintor, escultor y artista gráfico estadounidense.
- American
- Augusta, Georgia, United States
The large MAP represents an addition to Jasper Johns repertoire of imagery. The previous year, Rauschenberg had given Johns a schematic American map of the sort used in a school notebook, and Johns had painted over it; he used those proportions to paint the larger map.
Here, the Map in the Museum of Modern Art (1961) betrays such an indifference to geography that the United States is swamped in shrill yellows and reds and light blues, without any compensating adjustment of stroke to image. It is an unraveled, acrimonious picture.
© 1996 Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY ©1997 The Museum of Modern Art, New York