Jasper Johns

Japer Johns is a American contemporary artist who is mostly a printmaker and a painter. Born in Augusta, Georgia but mostly raised in South Carolina. He studied at the University of South Carolina for only three semesters and then moved to New York to study at the Parsons School of design. He is best known for his painting Flag (1954-1955), most of his earlier works used simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters, and numbers. His works try to create its meaning through the use of simple symbols.