Painted Bronze
E233558
Painted Bronze is a 1960 sculpture by Jasper Johns that famously depicts two Ballantine beer cans, exemplifying his exploration of everyday objects in fine art.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Painted Bronze canonical | 1 |
| Painted Bronze (Ale Cans) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2097606 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Painted Bronze Context triple: [Jasper Johns, notableWork, Painted Bronze]
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A.
Bronze Ball
The Bronze Ball is the FIFA Club World Cup’s third-place individual award given to one of the tournament’s best-performing players.
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B.
Cloisonnism
Cloisonnism is a late 19th-century French painting style characterized by bold, flat areas of color separated by dark contours, associated with artists like Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin.
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C.
Copper
Copper is one of the animal mascots created to represent and promote the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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D.
Copper Horse statue
The Copper Horse statue is a prominent equestrian monument of King George III that stands on Snow Hill overlooking Windsor Castle in Windsor Great Park, England.
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E.
Ife bronze and terracotta sculpture
Ife bronze and terracotta sculpture refers to the highly naturalistic and technically sophisticated royal and ritual artworks produced in ancient Ile-Ife, a major cultural and spiritual center of the Yoruba people in present-day Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Painted Bronze Target entity description: Painted Bronze is a 1960 sculpture by Jasper Johns that famously depicts two Ballantine beer cans, exemplifying his exploration of everyday objects in fine art.
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A.
Bronze Ball
The Bronze Ball is the FIFA Club World Cup’s third-place individual award given to one of the tournament’s best-performing players.
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B.
Cloisonnism
Cloisonnism is a late 19th-century French painting style characterized by bold, flat areas of color separated by dark contours, associated with artists like Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin.
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C.
Copper
Copper is one of the animal mascots created to represent and promote the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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D.
Copper Horse statue
The Copper Horse statue is a prominent equestrian monument of King George III that stands on Snow Hill overlooking Windsor Castle in Windsor Great Park, England.
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E.
Ife bronze and terracotta sculpture
Ife bronze and terracotta sculpture refers to the highly naturalistic and technically sophisticated royal and ritual artworks produced in ancient Ile-Ife, a major cultural and spiritual center of the Yoruba people in present-day Nigeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sculpture
ⓘ
work of art ⓘ |
| artForm | three-dimensional art ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop art ⓘ |
| artisticTheme |
ambiguity between reality and representation
ⓘ
intersection of fine art and mass culture ⓘ representation of everyday objects ⓘ |
| artworkType | sculpture in the round ⓘ |
| coloration | painted surface ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | copyrighted ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Jasper Johns ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | American ⓘ |
| creatorRole |
painter
ⓘ
sculptor ⓘ |
| culturalContext | postwar American consumer culture ⓘ |
| depictionStyle |
illusionistic
ⓘ
realist ⓘ |
| depicts | Ballantine beer can ⓘ |
| depictsBrand | Ballantine Ale ⓘ |
| dimension | small-scale tabletop sculpture ⓘ |
| genre | Pop art ⓘ |
| hasPart |
crushed Ballantine beer can
ⓘ
uncushed Ballantine beer can ⓘ |
| hasRepresentation |
museum catalogue reproduction
ⓘ
photograph ⓘ |
| inception | 1960 ⓘ |
| influenced | later Pop art sculpture ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Marcel Duchamp ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | none ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
consumer product
ⓘ
everyday object ⓘ |
| materialUsed | bronze ⓘ |
| movement |
Conceptual art precursor
ⓘ
Neo-Dada ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with early Pop art
ⓘ
depiction of ordinary commercial packaging ⓘ use of trompe-l'œil effects in sculpture ⓘ |
| partOf | Jasper Johns’ series of works using everyday objects ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Flag
ⓘ
Painted Bronze (Ale Cans) ⓘ
linked to:
Painted Bronze
Target with Four Faces ⓘ |
| technique |
cast bronze
ⓘ
hand painting ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workPeriod | early 1960s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Painted Bronze Description of subject: Painted Bronze is a 1960 sculpture by Jasper Johns that famously depicts two Ballantine beer cans, exemplifying his exploration of everyday objects in fine art.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Painted Bronze