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Audrey Flack (born 1931 in New York) is an American photorealist painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953. She earned a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University. She studied art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. ^[1]

Her early work was abstract; one such painting paid tribute to Franz Kline. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and finally a photorealist represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, in reaction to the abstract art movement. Author Graham Thompson wrote "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." ^[2] She later claimed she found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from baroque art.

The ironic kitsch themes in her early work influenced Jeff Koons. A pioneer of Photorealism and a nationally recognized painter and sculptor, Ms. Flack's work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Museum of Art in Canberra, Australia. She was the first photorealist painter to have work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art.

She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Audrey Flack has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally.

Audrey Flack is the author of "Art and Soul", a book expressing some of her thoughts on being an artist.^[3]

Audrey Flack lives and works in New York City and Long Island.

Published Notes and References

^ biography
^ Thompson, Graham: American Culture in the 1980s (Twentieth Century American Culture) Edinburgh University Press, 2007
^ Arkana; Published by the Penguin Group Copyright© 1986 by Audrey Flack ISBN 0 14 01.9347 2

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[2] Thompson, Graham: American Culture in the 1980s (Twentieth Century American Culture) Edinburgh University Press, 2007

[3] Arkana; Published by the Penguin Group Copyright© 1986 by Audrey Flack ISBN 0 14 01.9347 2

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 Flack studied fine arts in New York from 1948 to 1953. She earned a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from [[Cooper Union]] in New York City, and a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts]] from [[Yale University]]. She studied art history at the [[Institute of Fine Arts]], [[New York University]]. <ref>[http://www.audreyflack.com/AF/index.php?name=about biography]</ref>
-Her early work was abstract; one such painting paid tribute to [[Franz Kline]]. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and finally a photorealist, in reaction to the [[abstract art]] movement.  Author Graham Thompson wrote "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  It is also called super-realism or [[Hyperrealism (painting)|hyper-realism]] and painters like [[Richard Estes]], [[Denis Peterson]], Audrey Flack, and [[Chuck Close]] often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." <ref>Thompson, Graham: American Culture in the 1980s (Twentieth Century American Culture) Edinburgh University Press, 2007 </ref>  She later claimed she found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from [[baroque]] art.
+Her early work was abstract; one such painting paid tribute to [[Franz Kline]]. But gradually, Flack became a New Realist and finally a photorealist represented by the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, in reaction to the [[abstract art]] movement.  Author Graham Thompson wrote "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  It is also called super-realism or [[Hyperrealism (painting)|hyper-realism]] and painters like [[Richard Estes]], Audrey Flack, and [[Chuck Close]] often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs." <ref>Thompson, Graham: American Culture in the 1980s (Twentieth Century American Culture) Edinburgh University Press, 2007 </ref>  She later claimed she found the photorealist movement too restricting, and now gains much of her inspiration from [[baroque]] art.
 The ironic [[kitsch]] themes in her early work influenced [[Jeff Koons]].