Jasper Johns's Three Flags with Scott Rothkopf

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This is totally killer!!!

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I'm looking forward to this exhibit immensely. It should be spectacular.

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Wonderful.

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Mr. Rothkopf seems not to want, or be able to, illuminate us on the meaning of the painting. That is because many of these works are so intangible in their "meaning" that you can almost choose your answer. He comes close to it when he alludes to the issue of oppression in society in the 1950s (err...in the entire history of America, he could have said!) but does not delve deeper into it, perhaps as to not "kill" the ideas of others who project themselves unto something as puzzling as this image---or simply because he cannot. My take is that the three canvases, one on top of each other, signify to whatever extent it was to the artist, being homosexual himself, the extent to which those freedoms and "dreams" that America offered to the world are, by way of its diminished, superimposed two canvases a symbol for all those left behind in different worlds of their own, worlds that did not fit with the greater, accepted portrait of the larger canvases. We have come a long way but the symbol still holds---humankind always has (and will? Aahh...) find someone to oppress. On its purely aesthetic qualities, the painting is itself very interesting to look at "endlessly" clearly because of the brushwork that is so aggressively laid on the canvas by way of the encaustic, so much thicker than oil.