Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Considered a central figure in the development of American postwar art, he has been variously associated with abstract express
Johns receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011
Detail of Flag 1954–55, Museum of Modern Art, New York. This image illustrates Johns's early technique of painting with encaustic over a collage made from found materials such as newspaper.
Flag (painting)
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Flag is an encaustic painting by the American artist Jasper Johns. It was created in 1954–1955, when Johns was 24, two years after he was discharged from the U.S. Army. This painting was the first of
Jasper Johns
…is the fact that it isn't designed, but taken. It's not mine," or, that these motifs are "things the mind already knows." His early encaustic painting Flag (1954–55), painted after having a dream of it, marks the beginning of this new period. The motif allowed Johns to create a painting that was not…
Jasper Johns's 'Flag', Encaustic, oil and collage on fabric mounted on plywood,1954 55