Johns

Then name of the painting I researched is the painting //[|Flag]// by Jasper Johns [|Jasper Johns was born in 1930.]

[|A fun fact about Jasper Johns was that he began his career as a commercial artist, producing displays for New York shop windows.] [|Another fun fact about Jasper Johns was that in 1958 he had his first one-man exhibition which was an exceptional success.]

[|The art period was abstract expressionism and Pop Art.][|Abstract Expressionism was used by artists to try and demonstrate the qualities of the paint and the act of the painting alone.][| Pop Art is a movement where artists begin to make art with the subject of things that are relative in nature such as famous people, advertising, and movies.]

The story behind the painting quoted by Jasper Johns: "One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag," Johns has said of this work, "and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it."

[| The date of the painting was between 1954 to 1955.]

[|Jasper Johns was born in Augusta, Georgia.]

[|Jasper moved to New York City after studying at the University of South Carolina.]

I chose this art piece for this project because I thought it would be interesting to add pictures of myself to an American Flag. In order to make myself blend into the painting, I filtered the effect of my pictures to make it look more like I was really in the picture.