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Audrey Flack is an American artist who specializes in sculpture and painting. She is most noted as being the artist who pioneered photorealism in art. Audrey Flack's paintings were the first purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She is noted as having worked using still photographs as her inspiration, creating paintings that looked as real as the photographs which inspired them. Graham Thompson referred to her work as “super-realism”, including her with artists Chuck Close and Richard Estes as artists from the 1960s and 1970s who were able to “assimilate photography into the art world”. One example of her work in photorealism is the 1981 painting “Banana Split Sundae”. Audrey Flack’s work is displayed in public collections in museums around the world. Her book, Art & Soul: Notes on Creating was published in 1986. In it, Audrey Flack describes thoughts about what it is like to be artistic. She has received numerous awards and honors for her artwork from prestigious institutions throughout the United States. Less

Audrey Flack is an American artist who specializes in sculpture and painting. She is most noted as being the artist who pioneered photorealism in art. Audrey Flack's paintings were the first purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She is noted as having worked using still photographs as her inspiration, creating paintings that looked as real as the photographs which inspired them. Graham Thompson referred to her work as “super-realism”, including her with artists More

United States, 1931 | female artist | Abstract expressionism | Pop art | Hyper-realism | Share on Facebook and Twitter | www.audreyflack.com