Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Johns is a well known artist who is most renowned for his work with numbers and flags. Johns did his first flag painting in 1955; this piece was called ‘Flag’. His first work with sculptures was done in 1958 and was called Flashlight. Although Johns is often portrayed as Neo-Dadaist, he has some relationships to Pop Art because his work often has images in pop culture.
Johns is most famous for his painting ‘Flag’, done in 1945-1955. Personally, I love the painting. The way Jasper uses encaustic, or waxed based paint, really gives a new sense of detail to the painting. I still have the desire to go to NYC, go to the MoMA, and see this masterpiece for myself. If you look close enough, you can see that he painted encaustic over a grouping of materials such as newspaper.
