Jasper Johns
Flag
1954
'Flag' is the defining subject of Jasper Johns (b. 1930), begun in 1954–1955: the American flag rendered one-to-one on canvas in encaustic — hot wax mixed with newspaper collage — so that the painting is at once the image and a flat, handmade object. The device helped open the pathway from Abstract Expressionism to Neo-Dada and Pop; editions are held by MoMA, the Whitney, and the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art outside Copenhagen.
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