Audrey Flack

Audrey Flack is an American artist best known for her photorealist paintings and sculptures. Born in New York in 1931 to a middle class family, she attended the Music and Art High School in New York City before going on to graduate from Cooper Union in 1951. her work is similar to Adny warhol as she collects objects that have a personal meaning to her. flack  presents the objesct in ineresting and dynamic compositions the objects have been placed in interesting angles, then takes a photograph and makes a painting. Flack’s paintings concentrated on highly emotional social and political themes. She is known for her feminine color schemes, which were dominated by pastel colors. this inspired her to use bright enhanst colours.

Consistent through Flack’s career is her emphasis on symbolism. She tries to make her work “universal,” something that all audiences can relate to and understand. Her hyper realistic paintings are more captivating than a photograph even though they have all the details of the photograph. This is because her use of colours are captivating.

I made my own response to her work by taking a picture of all my objects from my box in a create composition and then tracing the photograph so that I could focus on adding the colour which was my main focus.