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Jasper Johns

1930 - Today

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Jasper Johns (born May 15, 1930) is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development of American postwar art, he has been variously associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art movements.Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in South Carolina. He graduated as valedictorian from Edmunds High School in 1947 and briefly studied art at the University of South Carolina before moving to New York City and enrolling at Parsons School of Design. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jasper Johns has received more than 1,914,718 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Jasper Johns is the 591st most popular painter (up from 696th in 2019), the 1,851st most popular biography from United States (up from 2,404th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Painter.

Jasper Johns is most famous for his paintings of flags, targets, and numbers.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jasper Johns by language

Over the past year Jasper Johns has had the most page views in the with 158,288 views, followed by Spanish (13,002), and French (12,619). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (56.91%), Egyptian Arabic (43.33%), and Swedish (28.29%)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jasper Johns ranks 591 out of 2,023. Before him are Henri-Edmond Cross, Kunisada, Oswald Achenbach, Francesco del Cossa, Juan de Flandes, and Konstantin Makovsky. After him are Jozef Israëls, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Wolf Vostell, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Erwin Bowien, and Margarita Luti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Jasper Johns ranks 111. Before him are Colin Dexter, Paul Veyne, Toru Takemitsu, Friedrich Gulda, Sonny Rollins, and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ. After him are Igor Netto, Rahmon Nabiyev, J. G. Ballard, Gaafar Nimeiry, Ruth Rendell, and Anisa Makhlouf.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jasper Johns ranks 1,851 out of 20,380. Before him are Joey Ramone (1951), Paul Desmond (1924), Michael Bay (1965), Frederick Cook (1865), Tom Courtney (1933), and Adelaide Hall (1901). After him are Joan Allen (1956), Loretta Young (1913), Isamu Noguchi (1904), Yaphet Kotto (1939), Carole King (1942), and Agnes Moorehead (1900).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Jasper Johns ranks 17. Before him are Joseph Kosuth (1945), James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834), Bob Ross (1942), Lyonel Feininger (1871), Sol LeWitt (1928), and Margaret Keane (1927). After him are Frank Stella (1936), Carl Andre (1935), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Thomas Eakins (1844), Cy Twombly (1928), and Julian Schnabel (1951).

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