It seems appropriate that on the 4th of July holiday in America, we look at one of America's most famous images, Jasper Johns's \"Flag, 1954-55.\" The video shares a conversation between Salman Khan and Steven Zucker about Johns's work, which includes this reflections from the artist:<\/p>\r\n
\"One night I dreamed I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it. And I did. I worked on that painting a long time. It's a very rotten painting\u2014physically rotten\u2014because I began it in house enamel paint, which you paint furniture with, and it wouldn't dry quickly enough. Then I had in my head this idea of something I had read or heard about: wax encaustic. \" --Jasper Johns<\/p>","video":"