Multi-media artist Jasper Johns became one of America's best-known post-Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists. His work is best known for depicting pictorial images of numbers, flags, and everyday objects created with a sense of linearity and repetition. Born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his childhood in many small South Carolina towns. He attended the University of South Carolina for two years, until he moved to New York City to pursue his artistic career. In 1949, he was drafted into the Army but soon returned back to New York to continue painting. Upon returning to New York, he began experimenting new styles, and "Flag", done in 1955, drew his first public recognition. Unlike the typical style of Abstract Expressionism, Johns' signature styles and genres appear removed from his personal life and emotion. His works are always composed in such a way that the focus is on the relationship between the colors and the shapes of the modern, realist subject matter. In 1959, his work became increasingly abstract and influenced by additional styles like Surrealism and Dadaism. By complicating surfaces and combining subjects and patterns, using cross-hatching methods and going on to create a technique called "assemblage." Johns' works are held in the permanent collections of many major museums throughout the world, and he is still credited as one of the most influential and groundbreaking artists of the Pop Art movement.