Three Flags
1954 · Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Johns chose things the mind already knows, so that nobody would look past the wax surface. Three flags stacked, each smaller than the last.
★ 7.4
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Painting Number 2
1954 · Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Black bars crossing a white ground, enlarged from small ink sketches so the speed and weight of the arm survive the scaling up.
★ 5.2
The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory
1954 · Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida
Dalí went back to his own melting watches and broke the ground beneath them into floating bricks, for the atomic age.
★ 5.2