Audrey L. Flack (1931 - 2024)
Audrey L. Flack
Audrey L. Flack is an American artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, sculpture, and photography. Flack's early work in the 1950s was abstract expressionist. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and then evolved into photorealism during the 1960s. Audrey Flack is best known for her photo-realist paintings and was one of the first artists to use photographs as the basis for painting.[6] The genre, taking its cues from Pop Art, incorporates depictions of the real and the regular, from advertisements to cars to cosmetics. Flack's work brings in everyday household items like tubes of lipstick, perfume bottles, Hispanic Madonnas, and fruit.[6] These inanimate objects often disturb or crowd the pictorial space, which are often composed as table-top still lives. Flack often brings in actual accounts of history into her photorealist paintings, such as World War II' (Vanitas) and Kennedy Motorcade. Women were frequently the subject of her photo-realist paintings. She was the first photorealist painter to be added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1966.
| Date and place of birt: | 30 may 1931, New York City, USA |
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| Date and place of death: | 28 june 2024, Southampton, USA |
| Nationality: | USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Painter, Photographer, Portraitist, Sculptor |
| Genre: | Portrait sculpture, Mythological painting, Portrait, Religious genre, Still life |
| Art style: | Abstract Expressionism, Post War Art, Realism, Hyperrealism, Kitsch, Photorealism, Contemporary art |
| Technique: | Crayon, Gouache, Acrylic, Charcoal, Mixed media, Oil on canvas, Pastel, Watercolor |
| Medium: | Bronze |
