Dallas Museum of Art Bulletin, Spring 1984 Page: 21
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Jasper Johns: Savarin Monotypes
March 31 - May 20 _, D.Seventeen monotypes by Jasper Johns will soon be on
view at the Dallas Museum of Art in the Print and Textile
Gallery These unique pieces came into being because a
group of proofs from the edition of Jasper Johns' litho-
graph Savarin (1977-81) published by Universal Limited
Art Editions (ULAE) was withheld by the artist. Thinking
to use these proofs as substructures for a series of mono-
types, Johns began painting with colored inks on sheets
of plexiglass. After reworking their surfaces, the artist
then ran these plexi sheets through a hand lithographic
press which resulted in the varied, lush images included
in this exhibition.
Jasper Johns, one of the most significant American
artists working in New York during the late 1950s to the
present, has incorporated the Savarin image into his
oeuvre since 1960 when he cast a brush-filled coffee can
in bronze. He worked its surface carefully; impressed it
with fingerprints, painted the object Savarin red, added its
brand name, and called the tin cans replication Painted
Bronze. Coming directly from Johns' studio, the Savarin
can had highly charged personal associations as it was the
receptacle for his paint brushes. Thus for Johns, this
image reflected his thoughts and feelings regarding his
relationship to the act of painting itself.
With an almost romantic attachment, Johns has re-
worked the Savarin image for 20 years in lithographs,
photoengravings and etchings, printing it on a poster, a
book jacket, and most recently featuring it as the subject
of monotypes. According to Judith Goldman, author of
the book Jasper Johns: 17 Monotypes, "In the Savarin
monotypes, Johns shows the feelings an object can ex-
press; the range of ideas it can hold. As these are paint-
ings, not prints, Johns works freely... the Savarins attitude
changes quickly Presenting the Savarin in an oval, Johns
renders it as a portrait, and a sketch; tacked to a wall, he
shows a portrait of a portrait."
This exhibition has been organized by ULAE. Judith
Goldman's book will be available in the Museum Shop.Jasper Johns
Savarin, monotype, 1982Sue Graze
Curator of Contemporary Art
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