Jasper Johns is an American contemporary artist born in 1930 who is best known for his painting Flag. Johns began drawing as a child and dreamed of becoming an artist from age 5. At age 24, he decided to stop becoming an artist and actually be one. Johns is known for his paintings and prints that often feature simple ideas like flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers.

1. Jasper
Johns
:Pop and Abstract Expressionist Artist

2. Jasper Johns is an American contemporary
artist was born May 15, 1930
• He is best known for his painting Flag.

3. Jasper Johns began
drawing as a child, and
by the age of five he
dreamed of becoming an
artist.

4. Johns painted Flag after having a dream of the
American flag.

5. At the age of twenty-four,
he made the decision to
stop becoming an artist
and actually be one.

6. Jasper Johns is most known for his
paintings and prints.
• Early paintings used simple ideas such as flags,
maps, targets, letters and numbers.

7. Can you find the United States?

8. In 1998, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York paid more than
20 million dollars for White Flag.

9. Johns' treatment of the surface is
often lush and painterly.

11. What is Jasper Johns subject?

12. Do you see letters or numbers?

13. Johns made many prints of numbers.

22. Sometimes numbers and letters are
on top of each other…

24. Sometimes they are very easy to see.

26. This
painting
is called
Cicada.

27. This is a cicada.

28. Do you
see a
cicada?

29. Jasper Johns still paints four to five paintings a year.

30. But sometimes he doesn’t paint at all during
a year.