Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg

Order Description Look closely at two works of art Jasper Johns's Three Flags (15-16) and Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon (15-17). Consider what these artists were trying to do and how they imagined viewers might respond to their work. Start out by describing the works themselves. Then decide whether you think these works of art have more in common with the artistic agendas of abstract artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, on the one hand, or Pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein or Andy Warhol on the other. Finally, if you were a young artist working full time in your studio in the early 1960s, hoping to do good work and be successful, which (if any) of these artists would you consider most relevant to your own ideas about art? (This requires that you imagine how you might have thought if you had been in your early 20s at the time of the JFK assassination and the early years of space travel.) Would current events have been relevant to your work or would you have wanted to address issues that were more timeless and universal?