Art Paper 3
Women Artist
BSA0706 - ART206: Art History
August 1, 2011
The purpose of this research paper will be to briefly tell about some of the extraordinary women artist from the 1950’s to present. Team Louvre has chosen the following women artists: Audrey Flack, Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves, and Alice Neel to share briefly their story as women artist. Audrey Flack was born in 1931 and is one of the founders of photorealism painting. During the Abstract Expressionist fifties, Audrey Flack suffered all the slings and arrows of being a female artist during times when female artists were viewed as little more than hobbyists. Flack believed that the continuous discovery of art was realty and artist should continue to use visual data. Flack also believed that art was the way people could express what was going on in the world and had a clear understanding of what was happening in the world (humanitiesweb, 2001). In the sixties, after the pop era, photo-realism began to rise to prominence and she caught the brass ring and stayed ahead of the game. Flack rose to the top of her field in painting and sculpting in a manner that has brought her respect from every segment of the art world and the real world (humanitiesweb, 2001). In several website, one of the "dirty little secrets" of the art world is the degree to which painters, especially painters of realism, use projected images to guarantee a portrait likeness or photographic verisimilitude. Photorealism painting has that wow factor in paintings that capture the minute detail of photographs, and in hyper realistic paintings, seem to capture more than a photograph (cyberpathway, n.d.). A typical Audrey Flack painting is World War II (Vanitas). Vanities was taken from the sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch painting in which still life items are chosen and arranged to make the viewer contemplate the "vanities" and fleeting qualities of life leading ultimately to death
BSA0706 - ART206: Art History
August 1, 2011
The purpose of this research paper will be to briefly tell about some of the extraordinary women artist from the 1950’s to present. Team Louvre has chosen the following women artists: Audrey Flack, Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Graves, and Alice Neel to share briefly their story as women artist. Audrey Flack was born in 1931 and is one of the founders of photorealism painting. During the Abstract Expressionist fifties, Audrey Flack suffered all the slings and arrows of being a female artist during times when female artists were viewed as little more than hobbyists. Flack believed that the continuous discovery of art was realty and artist should continue to use visual data. Flack also believed that art was the way people could express what was going on in the world and had a clear understanding of what was happening in the world (humanitiesweb, 2001). In the sixties, after the pop era, photo-realism began to rise to prominence and she caught the brass ring and stayed ahead of the game. Flack rose to the top of her field in painting and sculpting in a manner that has brought her respect from every segment of the art world and the real world (humanitiesweb, 2001). In several website, one of the "dirty little secrets" of the art world is the degree to which painters, especially painters of realism, use projected images to guarantee a portrait likeness or photographic verisimilitude. Photorealism painting has that wow factor in paintings that capture the minute detail of photographs, and in hyper realistic paintings, seem to capture more than a photograph (cyberpathway, n.d.). A typical Audrey Flack painting is World War II (Vanitas). Vanities was taken from the sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch painting in which still life items are chosen and arranged to make the viewer contemplate the "vanities" and fleeting qualities of life leading ultimately to death
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