Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia, 1930, and raised in Adelaide, South Carolina. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina before moving to New York City and enrolling in Parsons School of Design in 1950. Johns focused more on the process of creating the art than the outcome, believing that the actual art was in the process. He is considered a central figure in American post-war art, as well as the Pop Art, Neo-Dada, and Abstract-Impressionist movements.