LEMONDADE

“NOTHING BEATS a COLD REFRESHING GLASS

of FRESH MADE LEMONADE on a HOT SUMMERS DAY”

 

LEMONADE RECIPE :

6 Cups Water

1 Cup Sugar

1 – 1/2 Cups Lemon Juice (about 7 or 8 Lemons)

Place all ingredients together mix and let set in the refrigerator for one hour or more, or you can serve right away.

To serve, fill a galss 3/4 full with ice cubes. Pour in Lemonade to top. Garnish with a wedge of Lemon, Serve and Enjoy.

 

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FLAG

Jasper Johns

1954

Painting of an AMerican Flag with 48 Stars

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“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag,” Johns has said of this work, “and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.” Those materials included three canvases that he mounted on plywood, strips of newspaper, and encaustic paint—a mixture of pigment and molten wax that has formed a surface of lumps and smears. The newspaper scraps visible beneath the stripes and forty-eight stars lend this icon historical specificity. The American flag is something “the mind already knows,” Johns has said, but its execution complicates the representation and invites close inspection. A critic of the time encapsulated this painting’s ambivalence, asking, “Is this a flag or a painting?”