Other people's paintings only much cheaper: No.13 Johns Painting

Other People's Paintings only much Cheaper: No. 13.1 Johns (on The Daily Telegraph). Jasper Johns is well known for his depictions of the American flag. Johns' works regularly received millions of dollars at sale and auction, including a reported $110 million sale in 2010. At multiple times works by Johns have held the title of most paid for a work by a living artist. He used a fast-drying medium that enabled him to apply individual strokes with great textural variation, while allowing some of the underlying areas of newspaper collage to show through, dimly, enticing the viewer to look closely. Here Sly has re-done it with spray on The Daily Telegraph; and being British, now, he has done it as the Union Flag. Of course Britain being much smaller than the US it is placed on sale at a much lower price. It is likely that Juan Sly has become the biggest seller of original artworks in the UK. An artist exhibiting in mainly spray stencils and oils. He has exhibited at the Saatchi (a proper gallery with pillars and everything!) alongside the likes of Banksy, Terry O'Neil, Tracy Emin and Vic Reeves and now has a permanent collections in Germany, Detroit and Uk, alongside Damien Hirst and some other artists you might have heard of plus private collections around the globe. His works rock from humour to anti-war, sex to surreal. Particularly fond of the stencil medium as it allows him to quickly respond to events and ideas and gives the work that gritty illegal look. The stencils naturally allow the works to be re-sprayed and so become affordable and disposable. He likes the fact that people can buy art that they like and not to show off how much they can afford. You can find them in bedsits, legal offices in the Temple or stuck to a fence in Bristol. Spiel by Steeve