Photographers Kitsch
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.
Pierre et Gilles is the creative union of Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, French photographers and spouses.
Pierre Commoy was born in 1950 in La Roche-sur-Yon and Gilles Blanchard in 1953 in Le Havre.
Their joint work is at the crossroads of pop-art and kitsch, it has had a significant influence on fashion photography, advertising and has spawned many imitators.
Wang Qingsong is a Chinese photographer. He studied at the Sichuan Academy of Art. He began his career as an oil painter, then moved on to photography. Wang Qingsong is a contemporary Chinese artist whose large-format photographs address the rapidly changing society of China. His photographs, appearing at first humorous and ironic, have a much deeper message.