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Flag, 1954-55

            Jasper Johns
American, born 1930
encaustic, oil, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood, three panels

"One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag," Johns said, "and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it." Those materials included three canvases that he mounted on plywood, strips of newspaper, and encaustic paint--a mixture of pigment and molten wax that has formed a quivering surface of lumps and smears. The legible newspaper scraps beneath the tactile surface-some dating form 1955 and 1956, when Johns repaired the painting--lend the timeless, public icon historical specificity. While this image is something " the mind already knows," Johns acknowledged, its execution complicated the representation and invites close inspection. A critic of the time encapsulated this painting's ambivalence by asking, "Is this a flag or a painting?"
   

Taken on: March 25, 2009

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Camera: Sony DSC-T300, f/3.5, 1/15 sec, 5.8mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony DSC-T300
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.067 sec (1/15)
Focal Length:	5.8mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
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