The tours given at the Katonah Museum of Art will all have slightly different themes. These follow-up exercises are possible ways to have students continue to work on the ideas they see and discuss at the Museum.
Flags are important visual objects that all have color, composition, and logic.
Using a flag to make art is a way to continue the theme of borrowing and appropriating older art Some of the most important paintings made by an American artist are Jasper Johns' Flag series. The artist used the American Flag as a way to make his paintings. Most of the Flag series are made on collage. The artist used torn newspaper as a surface for painting. Johns used a method of painting called encaustic, using wax as a part of his paint.