The reverberations of the work of Jasper Johns affected nearly every artistic movement from the 1950's through to the present day. As part of the crucial Neo-Dada movement, Johns bridged the aesthetic gap between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art during the late 1950s. Pop artists, like Andy Warhol and James Rosenquist, benefitted from Johns' groundbreaking turn to the outside world, which presented everyday objects and mass-produced goods as the subject matter of fine art.  He did so by initiating a dialogue with the viewer and their cultural context through his artistic exploration of how people see the things around them. By representing common objects and images in the realm of fine art, Johns broke down the boundaries traditionally separating fine art and everyday life. He effectively laid the foundation for the Pop Art movement's aesthetic embrace of commodity

culture with his playfully subversive appropriation of common signs and products. Through his exploration of the mutable meanings of images and symbols, Johns also paved the way for the Conceptual Art movement of the 1960's in his collaborations with performance artists like Merce Cunningham