Flag

Jasper Johns1954-1955Encaustic and collage
ArtistJasper Johns
Year1954-1955
MediumEncaustic and collage
LocationMoMA, New York

About Flag

Johns painted the American flag using encaustic, embedding newspaper clippings. He said he painted it because it was something the mind already knows. The work questions the boundary between object and representation. Started a new movement away from Abstract Expressionism.