- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Three Flags
- Creator:
- Image from Wikimedia
Miri.gn - Date of Original:
- 1958
- Subject:
- Arts--Georgia
Culture - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- images (object genre)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The encaustic painting "Three Flags" (1958) is representative of the distinctive style and subject matter that characterized Jasper Johns's work during the peak of the pop art movement. Johns mixed pigment with wax in order to achieve a faster drying time and create a textured, layered surface that emphasizes the artist's strokes against the canvas. The three canvases are stacked on top of each other, projecting into a three dimensional space to create an effect that contrasts with centuries of classical presentations of art.
Image of the painting Three Flags (1958) by Georgia native Jasper Johns. The painting depicts a stylized rendering of the American flag on three canvases of diminishing scale stacked on top of each other. The painting exemplifies the artist's iconic style and subject matter during the height of the pop art movement and was first exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in 1963. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/jasper-johns-b-1930/jasper-johns_001/
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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