He managed to invent pop art, conceptual art and minimalism all in one go when he started to make an American flag out of
waxy paint layered over newspaper collage in 1954 and has been meditating with the same serious irony about objects and their meanings ever since.
Not exact matches
The car is so new, in fact, that it still wears its factory - applied cosmoline — a
waxy layer of
paint protectant that dealers typically remove before delivering a new car — which has attracted all the dirt and dust shown in the photos.
In 1954, Johns began
painting an American flag in
waxy layers over newspaper clippings.