Photorealism
- Kennedy Motorcade
- Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
- Farb Family Portrait
- Macarena of Miracles
- Crayola
- Self-Portrait
- Buddha
- World War II
- Marilyn
- We Are All Light and Energy
Crayola. 1972-73
Oil over acrylic on canvas, 28x40" - Private collection
| I am including Crayola mainly to highlight Flack's use of color.
She believed color should be thought of in terms of light. Each color has
its own wavelength, and this knowledge came from studying the color in
her projections of slides. Without the light there would be no color. Color
is not stable. Flack began painting all she could with only three primary
colors, and mixing these to get the desired hue. Flack was amazed at the
colors that would come from splitting the light from a plain bulb (Flack
44-46).
The colors in Crayola are stunningly vibrant. Comparing them to Flack's early works, done under the concept of color as a material substance, it is easy for one to see how viewing color are wavelengths of light can change how it is depicted. |