Usuyuki

1977–1978 · Painting

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Gdzie jest teraz „Usuyuki”? Kolekcja: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Obecnie poza wystawą. Sprawdzono 9 listopada 2026.

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O obrazie

Jasper Johns named Usuyuki, painted in 1977–1978 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, after the Japanese term for light or thin snow. Its shifting patterns and subdued colours suggest flakes drifting down. Johns cut newspaper into strips and covered them with pigment mixed into beeswax, the material of encaustic painting. Once the mixture was on the canvas, he pressed round and rectangular cans into it. Their impressions remain distributed over the surface, interrupting the painted and collaged layers.

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Usuyuki is a Japanese word meaning thin or light snow and, indeed, the painting's subtle colors and intricate patterns, with their suggestions of movement, recall the drift of falling snowflakes. Johns's method of painting at this time involved cutting strips of newspaper and covering them with a mixture of pigment and beeswax, called encaustic. After applying this mixture to the canvas, Johns pressed circular and rectangular cans into the surface to create visible imprints throughout the image.

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Szczegóły

Numer inwentarzowy: 1993.109

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Cleveland Museum of Art
Zdjęcie: Cleveland Museum of Art — © Jasper Johns / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Z życia: Jasper Johns

Cały życiorys

1967–1980
Artistic adviser to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Johns had long supported the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, helping to raise funds and attention and assisting Rauschenberg with set and costume designs in the 1950s, and from 1967 to 1980 he served as its artistic adviser.
1973–1987
A farmhouse with a glass-walled studio at Stony Point
From 1973 to 1987 Johns kept a rustic 1930s farmhouse with a glass-walled studio in Stony Point, New York.
1976
The book “Foirades/Fizzles” with Samuel Beckett
At the Atelier Crommelynck in Paris, where his intaglios were printed for Petersburg Press from 1975 to 1990, Johns collaborated with Samuel Beckett on Foirades/Fizzles, a book of five text fragments by Beckett in French and English with 33 intaglios by Johns.
24 czerwca 1977 – 2 października 1977
Exhibition: Documenta 6
1980
The Whitney buys “Three Flags” for $1 million
In 1980 the Whitney Museum of American Art paid $1 million for Three Flags (1958), then the highest price ever paid for the work of a living artist.