Jasper Johns, who painted the two versions of the American flag here and here, was inspired to take up this subject by a dream.
According to a 1988 New York Times article, One day in 1954, Johns casually mentioned to (fellow artist Robert) Rauschenberg that he'd had a crazy dream the previous night. ''How crazy was it?'' Rauschenberg asked. ''Well,'' Johns replied, ''in this dream I was painting the American flag.'' The American flag? Rauschenberg didn't think it was crazy at all. ''That's a really great idea,'' he said.
The immediate result was Johns's original encaustic-on-fabric pasted-on-a-board flag, the conventional-looking red, white, and blue one. This was in the mid-fifties, and Johns was 24. He had no idea that acting on his dream as Rauschenberg suggested would make him famous.
The proprietor of the site "Sacred Narrative," from which I got this information, suggests that "Dream work is easy."
"To make your dreams work for you," she says, "you have to do three things:
"1) remember them
2) listen to them
3) act on them"
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