Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Flag

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Flag
Image View: 
Overall view in box frame
Creator: 
Jasper Johns (American painter, born 1930)
Location: 
repository: Broad Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States) B-JOHN-2P99.01
Location Note: 
Jasper Johns: 'Something Resembling Truth' (Exhibition, February 10-May 13, 2018)
GPS: 
+34.0544-118.251
Date: 
1967 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
American
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
encaustic and collage on canvas (three panels)
Technique: 
collage (technique); encaustic painting (technique)
Measurements: 
85.09 cm (height) x 142.88 cm (width)
Subjects: 
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); flags; American flag
Description: 
This work is part of the Broad's permanent collection. Like all of Johns' works featuring common signs and symbols; flags, targets, numbers, letters, maps, the flag works not only challenged the premises of abstract expressionism, but also questioned the medium of painting itself. His flags weren’t meant to be emotional or political statements as much as purely visual ones, the familiar image suddenly unfamiliar in its new context. The depiction on canvas is, simply, a painterly gesture, both the picture of a flag and an object unto itself. (Source: Los Angeles Times [online edition]; http://www.latimes.com/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-JOHNS-SRT-F68-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.