jasper johns

     

His paintings of flags & targets at a one-man show in 1958 unleashed a storm of controversy

Trivia about jasper johns

  • This pop artist created 1958's "Three Flags", a triple portrait of the American Flag
  • In the '50s this Georgia-born artist was heavily into American flags & targets
  • This artist has made a bronze sculpture of two beer cans as well as paintings of the U.S. flag
  • Georgia guy, flag-fashioning pop painter
  • In the '50s, he became friends with another innovative alliterative artist, Robert Rauschenberg
  • He said, "One night I dreamt I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I... bought the materials to begin it"
  • You could say this alliterative American did his own paint by numbers with series like "0 Through 9"
  • Done in monochrome, "White Flag" from 1955 is the largest of his flag paintings
  • He said, "One night I dreamt I painted a large American flag"

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