1. Pop project

2. Robert Rauschenberg Jasper Johns

3. 1968 Flags Imagery derives from "things the mind already knows," utterly familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, ale cans, and, slightly later, maps of the U.S.

4. Johns has said that the idea to paint this first American flag came to him in a dream. Although he began the work using enamel house paint, he soon turned to his variant of the ancient medium of encaustic wherein wax, not oil, binds pigment. The fast-drying medium enabled him to apply individual strokes with great textural variation, while allowing some of the underlying areas of collage to show through, dimly, enticing the viewer to look closely. As John Cage wrote of Johns' craftsmanship: "Looking closely helps, though the paint is applied so sensually there is the danger of falling in love." 1955 Flag

5. Signs This collage emphasizes the use of color, texture and symbolism. It displays the uproar of the 1960s with images of Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, Janis Joplin, Robert Kennedy and civil unrest.

6. Combines and Collages Using magazine photographs of current events to create silk- screen prints, Rauschenberg transferred prints of familiar images, such as JFK or baseball games, to canvases and overlapped them with painted brushstrokes. They looked like abstractions from a distance, but up close the images related to each other, as if in conversation. These collages were a way of bringing together the inventiveness of his combines with his love for painting. Using this new method he found he could make a commentary on contemporary society using the very images that helped to create that society.

8. Retroactive 1 (1964) Rauschenberg used images of current events gathered from magazines and newspapers for his 1964 collage Retroactive 1 (1964). A large press photograph of John F. Kennedy speaking at a televised news conference was the source for this screen print on canvas. He juxtaposed the image of Kennedy with another photo silkscreen of a parachuting astronaut. The overlapping, and seemingly different/dissimilar, composition creates a colorful visual commentary on a media- saturated culture struggling to come to grips with the television era.

10. Layered Collage Pick overall theme: news, art, sports, message?, feeling like confusion, everyday events, or a person. Collect objects, pictures, newspaper images, photos, lettering, etc. All pieces will unify overall theme. Color, Texture, Symbolism, Repetition, Balance are key factors when creating your artwork. First layer: glue collage by overlapping, using juxtaposition, and cropping. Entire space will be used. Second layer: paints and stencils. You will create your own stencil. The stencil can be letters, symbols, or shapes that are repeated in your design. All elements should unify your overall theme along with a unified pattern and color.