Audrey Flack (1931 - present)One of Superrealism’s pioneers was lifelong New Yorker Audrey Fla

Audrey Flack (1931 - present)

One of Superrealism’s pioneers was lifelong New Yorker Audrey Flack, who studied the history of art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts after graduating from Yale. Her paintings, such as Marilyn, were not simply technical exercises in recording objects in minute detail but were also conceptual inquiries into the nature of photography and the extent to which photography constructs an understanding of reality. Flack observed: “[Photography is] my whole life, I studied art history, it was always photographs, I never saw the paintings, they were in Europe… . Look at TV and at magazines and reproductions, they’re all influenced by photo-vision.”  Most of her paintings are still lifes that present the viewer with a collection of familiar objects painted with great optical fidelity. They often includes multiple references to death and alludes to Dutch vanitas paintings. (x)