David+D.

  Jasper Johns  By David Drenth

 Jasper Johns was born on may 15th 1930 in Augusta Georgia. His style of art is pop art, abstract art ,sculpting, and painting. When he was a kid his mom left in the care of his grandfather. Abstract art is a type of art in which the artist expresses him self. The art was popular in 1946-1960. Pop art is is a style of art which explores the day imagery. He painted flags,numbers ,and letters of the alphabet. Later on Jasper started to use real objects on the canvas. He contributed to the art world by greatly helping pop art get started.   



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**Tanzania Flag**

Artist Statement My artworks name is Tanzania because I painted the Tanzanian flag. I used acrylic paint to color the entire painting. I used black, yellow, blue, green paint for the flag. For the border of the flag I mixed brown, yellow, black, and orange paint. Jasper Johns painting that inspired me the most was Flag, which was made in 1954. It made want draw a flag but I wanted to do one that was not the American flag. I wanted draw flag from East Africa so I decided to paint the Tanzania flag. In my painting of the Tanzania Flag my message that I was trying to show to the viewer by not doing a flag that was United States flag is that the United States isn’t the only country in the world but that it is part of a planet full of countries. I was looking for a flag with an array of colors so that it wasn’t plain but it was colorful so that make people happy. I had an ok experience on this project. I had enjoyed it at some parts but not others because some parts got kind of complicated and others were simple. In order to make the painting to look how a flag should I double the scale of the picture of the flag I got. In order to try and make so that the paint would not go into other sections I would tope on the edges of the section I was painting. It wasn’t really successful because I started painting black in the yellow section so that messed it up. So overall this project to me was ok. At points it got kind of hard but then it would eventually go back to easy .