Robert Longo - Cast Bronze Black Flag (Study for the Bullet or the Ballot)
Year: 1991
Medium: Graphite on paper
Titled lower left
Size: 13 x 17.25 in (33 x 43.8 cm)
Frame Size: 19.5 x 23.5 in (49.5 x 59.7 cm)
Price on request
In addition to his broader interest in mass media, art history, and popular culture, Longo is fascinated by the iconography of power and of violence, a fascination that is perhaps most poignant in his Black Flags series. These works – distressed and blackened American flags – are considered to be some of Longo’s more political.
Although many of his works are based on photographs, Longo’s works are informed by his detailed drawings – transformed and transmuted through his mind’s eye. This drawing is a study for one of the aforementioned Black Flags, titled larger-than-life “The Bullet or the Ballot.”