American White Flag By Jasper Johns In The MET, NYC, USA Royalty-Free Stock Photo

"White Flag" by Jasper Johns exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting of American flag painted in one color. Jasper Johns made lots of flag paintings—this is the largest one and the first one he painted in monochrome (using only one color, namely different shades of white). Jasper Johns created these shades from different layers of wax—some are transparent and some are opaque. For this painting, the artist used a special material called encaustic: melted beeswax combined with paint or pigment, which he applied to the canvas before it hardened