Target with Four Faces

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Target with Four Faces is a 1955 mixed-media painting by Jasper Johns that combines a bullseye target motif with fragmented human faces to challenge traditional notions of representation and perception in art.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf mixed-media artwork
painting
artForm encaustic painting
mixed media
artHistoricalContext early major work by Jasper Johns
artworkSurface wooden panel
collection Museum of Modern Art
surface form: The Museum of Modern Art collection
colorPalette black
blue
red
white
yellow
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Jasper Johns
creatorNationality American
depicts bullseye target
four faces
fragmented human faces
exhibitionHistory exhibited at Leo Castelli Gallery
genre abstract art
conceptual art
hasPart hinged shutters
lower panel with target
plaster face fragments
upper compartment with faces
hasTitleLanguage English
inception 1955
influenced Conceptual Art
Pop art
surface form: Pop Art
influencedBy Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionism
languageOfWork none (visual artwork)
location Museum of Modern Art
surface form: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
mainSubject human faces
target motif
materialUsed encaustic paint
newspaper collage
plaster casts
wood
movement Neo-Dada
Proto-Pop Art
notableFor challenge to traditional representation
combination of painting and sculpture
exploration of perception
integration of real objects into painting
use of everyday imagery
use of target motif
numberOfFacesDepicted 4
title Target with Four Faces self-link

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Jasper Johns notableWork Target with Four Faces
Target with Four Faces title Target with Four Faces self-link