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 many works that Johns made, as he said, that were inspired by …

Jasper Johns. Flag. 1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954). Encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels. 42 1/4 x 60 5/8" (107.3 x 153.8 cm).

2018年4月20日 · Since that time, Johns has created more than 100 flags in various media, in a variety of sizes, as a single flag or in multiples, and depicted it in black & white, greys, in oranges and greens and in the traditional red, white and blue.

2021年9月29日 · In 1954, Jasper Johns began painting what would become one of his signature emblems: the American flag. As an iconic image--comparable to the targets, maps, and letters that he also has depicted--Johns realized that the flag …

Flag (1954–55), encaustic, oil, and collage painting on wood panel that was created in 1954–55 by American artist Jasper Johns. It was the first of many renderings of the flag of the United States by Johns and is one of his best-known works.

Flag, 1954-55 by Jasper Johns Johns has said that the idea to paint this first American flag came to him in a dream. Although he began the work using enamel house paint, he soon turned to his variant of the ancient medium of encaustic wherein wax, not oil, binds pigment.

Using the flag Johns had said, gave him a great deal of freedom, because he didn't have to design it. It was a symbol that gave him room to work on other levels, and specifically, on the making of the painting.

As a precursor to Pop Art of the 1960s, Johns was one of the first artists to make art based on common everyday objects. By representing a flag, Johns eliminated the artist’s subjective role to choose color and forms to express an idea, and thus forces us to reconsider these things traditionally valued in art.

1999年5月10日 · Johns’s Flag is a perceptual game, a two-step between reality and illusion that extends to the meaning of the work. Johns’s take on the flag, which began in 1954 near the start of the Cold War, is analytic, cool, and unsentimental.

Flag is a significant encaustic painting created by Jasper Johns in 1954-55. The inspiration for the painting came from a dream that Johns had of the American flag. What makes this piece so significant is that it broke with tradition by representing a recognizable everyday object instead of continuing with non-objective painting.