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Audrey Flack Signed Serigraph, Esperanza #1512316

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Audrey Flack Signed Serigraph, Esperanza #1512316
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Artist: Audrey Flack [1931 - ]

Title: Esperanza

Year: Circa 1972

Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 150

Paper Size: 34" X 24"





A photo-realist painter of popular images, Audrey Flack was committed to the idea that the greatest art is that which can be understood by the masses of people. She had major influence in the revitalizing of still-life subjects in the 1970s and 1980s, and unlike most photo-realist painters was emotionally committed to her subject matter. She regarded emotional commitment as part of being feminine, something of which she is proud.



Flack was one of the first painters to acknowledge that she referred to photographs when painting and would project photos from slides onto her canvases, painting over the images. She began working in a representational style when Abstract Expressionism was dominating the art world. She is especially committed to subjects of strong-minded women, eschewing oppression, and openly associated with feminine objects such as finger-nail polish and china cups.



Flack was raised in Washington Heights, New York and graduated from Cooper Union in 1951. Josef Albers, then the new chair of the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, actively recruited her as part of his attempt to upgrade the quality of the students in that department. But determined to be a realist, she fought with Albers continuously, rebelling against his aggressive and exclusively ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:c. 1972</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:34</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Audrey Flack Signed Serigraph, Esperanza</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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