Audrey Flack

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Audrey Flack (born May 30, 1931 in New York ) is an American painter and sculptor of photorealism . Along with Vija Celmins , she is considered the most important female member of this movement and one of the most important living visual artists in her country.

Life

Flack received her artistic training in her hometown (1948–1953) and very early joined the photorealistic movement that emerged as a reaction to the increasingly hermetic abstract art of Jackson Pollock , Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko . Flack's pictures are characterized by their love of detail and their richness of color, which is often kept in emphatically “feminine” tones (pink, light blue ...), which in turn influenced the deliberately kitsch art of Jeff Koons . This penchant for the decorative is at the end of a development that also included the satirical element in the 1970s. One of her best-known works is “ Marilyn (Vanitas) ” from 1977. Audrey Flack's works include a. a. in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the Museum of Modern Art , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Audrey Flack on Painting, Harry N. Abrams, 1981
  • Art and Soul, Plume, 1986
  • Daily Muse, Harry N. Abrams, 1989
  • Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective, 1950-1990, Harry N. Abrams, 1992
  • Audrey Flack: Sketchbook, 1985-1989, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1992

literature

  • Christine Lindey: Superrealist painting & sculpture, Orbis, 1980
  • Lisa Gabrielle Mark (Ed.): Wack !: Art and the Feminist Revolution. With Press, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Audrey Flack
  2. ↑ Audrey Flack's Marilyn: Still Life, Vanitas, Trompe l'Oeil ( September 12, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) University of Arizona Museum of Art
personal data
SURNAME Flack, Audrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photorealist and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH new York