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Article: Painter's reinvention the focus of National Gallery exhibit.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune
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- February 26, 2007
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Byline: Chuck Myers
WASHINGTON _ Many artists share strong bonds with iconic forms and subjects in their art.
Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O'Keefe, for instance, are closely associated with their paintings of beguiling flora. Similarly, Paul Cezanne produced multiple views of Mount Sainte-Victoire near Aix-en-Provence, while Andy Warhol zeroed in on pop culture figures in his vivid portraits.
But few artists, perhaps, have become more closely identified with specific motifs than American artist Jasper Johns.
In the 1950s, Johns broke with the dominant style of the time, Abstract Expressionism, and embarked on a new artistic path that ...