Three Flags, 1958
Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)
Encaustic on canvas; 30 7/8 x 45 x 5 in.
50th Anniversary Gift of the Gilman Foundation, Inc., The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman, an anonymous donor and purchase 80.32
Art © Jasper Johns/ Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Here Johns superimposed three red, white, and blue flags so that the smallest is closest to the viewer, a kind of reverse perspective. The painting is five inches deep and has an objectlike quality. It shares with many works of art made since World War II the characteristic that it seems to invade the real space of the viewer.
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