Fue realizada en 1958, alrededor de cuatro años después de que Johns hiciera su primera pintura de una bandera. Scott Rothkopf: Soy Scott Rothkopf, Curador en jefe Familia Nancy y Steve Crown en el Whitney Museum.Īhora contemplamos la pintura llamada Three Flags de Jasper Johns.
As he remarked, this painting allowed him to “go beyond the limits of the flag, and to have different canvas space.” Videos View all By shifting the visual emphasis from the flag’s emblematic meaning to the geometric patterns and variegated texture of the picture surface and the canvas structure, Johns explores the boundary between abstraction and representation. The trio of flags-each successively diminished in scale by about twenty-five percent-projects outward, contradicting classical perspective, in which objects appear to recede from the viewer’s vantage point. The work’s structural arrangement adds to its complexity. The painting draws attention to the process of its making through Johns’s use of encaustic, a mixture of pigment suspended in warm wax that congeals as each stroke is applied the resulting accumulation of discrete marks creates a sensuous, almost sculptural surface. As an iconic image-comparable to the targets, maps, and letters that he also has depicted-Johns realized that the flag was “seen and not looked at, not examined.” The execution and composition of Three Flags elicit close inspection by the viewer. In 1954, Jasper Johns began painting what would become one of his signature emblems: the American flag.
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