Facts about Jasper Johns Flag Series

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   Collectors and institutions prize the Flag Series as a pivotal example of Neo-Dada art, bridging Abstract Expressionism and the emerging Pop Art movement of the late 1950s.

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   Johns returned to the flag motif repeatedly across decades, producing variations in gray, white, and other non-naturalistic color schemes that question assumptions about representation.

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   Flag, the first major painting in the series, is now held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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   The Jasper Johns Flag Series employs encaustic, a wax-based paint medium, which gives the works a richly textured surface that emphasizes the materiality of the painted object.

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   Jasper Johns Flag Series began in 1954 when Johns painted his first American flag after reportedly dreaming about it.

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