Flag

1954-55 (dated on reverse 1954) · Painting

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About the painting

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 a dream of the U.S. flag in 1954. It is one of the paintings for which Johns is best known. It is held in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York.

The painting was featured in the 1980 BBC Two series 100 Great Paintings.

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Inventarisnummer: 106.1973

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Intussen, in het leven van Jasper Johns

Het hele leven

1951–1953
Drafted into the army during the Korean War
In 1951 his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the army during the Korean War. He served for two years, first at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and then in Sendai, Japan.
summer 1953
Meets Robert Rauschenberg
Returning to New York in the summer of 1953, Johns worked at Marboro Books and met Sari Dienes, Rachel Rosenthal and Robert Rauschenberg, five years his senior, with whom he began a romantic and artistic relationship that lasted until 1961. In the same period he was strongly influenced by the choreographer Merce Cunningham and his partner, the composer John Cage.
1954
Destroys his earlier work: flags, targets, numbers
In 1954 Johns destroyed all of his previous artwork still in his possession and began painting flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers, “things the mind already knows”. Unlike the gestural abstraction of the Abstract Expressionists, these paintings could be read as both representational and abstract.

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