Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Obsessed with this painting

This painting, montage, decopage, multi-media masterpiece
Haunts me...
I am in love with it.
Read the Fast Company link.
Fast Company Article
Michael Crighton was quite to chap.
Author, nasty husband, awesome art collector.
But it's the Jasper John's painting Flag that keeps me up at night.
 

Flag detail











"One night I dreamed I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. And I did. I worked on that painting a long time. It's a very rotten painting—physically rotten—because I began it in house enamel paint, which you paint furniture with, and it wouldn't dry quickly enough. Then I had in my head this idea of something I had read or heard about: wax encaustic."

--Jasper Johns Quote

It's at the Moma, New York City, New York
 







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