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'Wheel Of Fortune'- Audrey Flack Flashcards

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Promt 1:
Media Handling and/or Technique
Colours

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-Block in the colours using acrylic paints/large brushed
-Acrylic paints are fast drying + cheap perfect for a large piece.

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Prompt 1:
Media Handling and/or Technique
Oil paints

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-After acrylic paints Flack uses oil paints to add detailed/glossy finish
-( take long time to dry ) meaning Flack could focus in lil details(lil brushes) helping make it hyper realistic

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Prompt 1:
Composition/Arrangement
Cluttered/Objects

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  • Cluttered due to the whole canvas contains objects and very lil backgrounds shown
  • Forced viewers to concentrate on the meaning behind them since no context is given
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Prompt 1:
Composition/Arrangement
Focal Points

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  • Busy meaning our eyes don’t automatically rest immediately
    -Focal Point is skull since it’s framing objects are all advancing reds
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Prompt 2:
Colours
Feminine

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-bright/bold/vivid/ acidic
-Overabundance of reds/pinks throughout show feminine mood

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Prompt 2:
Colour
Advancing red objects

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  • red frames skull w grapes,lipstick, wine, candle +hourglass sand
    -advancing colour focused on skull
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Prompt 2:
Tone
Lighting

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  • Strong highlights on subject matter give impression of staged lighting
  • Contrast to trad. VANITAS work, adding a more modern twist
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Prompt 2:
Line
Brushtstrokes

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  • There are no obvious brushstrokes
  • Characteristic to photorealism
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Prompt 2:
Line
Objects

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-Man made /Natural objects but all have soft, curved lines
- Adds air of grace + fluidity to the painting

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Prompt 2:
Texture
Fabric

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-Fabric appears silk+satin due to glossy appearance
- Creates luxurious feeling ( echoed in jewellery + ornate mirror )

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Prompt 2:
Texture
Plastic look

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-vivids highlights, the subject matter to make be smooth+glossy emphasises hard cold surfaces
- also in reflection on metal and glass objects also creating plastics look on subject matter

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Prompt 2:
Pattern
Subject Matter + Fabric

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  • lack of pattern on fabric+ subject matter
  • balance the fact of busy composition
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Prompt 2:
Pattern
Beads/Grapes

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-Repition of beads around grapes creates a frame
-Draws attention to centre of comp. to ensuring eyes stay on painting

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Prompt 2:
Shape and/or Form
Mirror

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  • ornate Shape of mirror, contrast to the more solid shapes of the other objects
  • draws attention to reflection+ adding delicate nature to the subject
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Prompt 2:
Shape and/or Form
Circles + Ovals

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-Repetition of circles+ovals throughout painting varying in scale ( small beads to large orbs in background )
- Soft shapes echo feminine influence on painting

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Prompt 3:
Mood + Atmosphere
Still life

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-Still Life arrangement juxtaposed beautiful +sumptuous objects ie. Ripe grapes/glass of wine/sparkling jewelry+ skull of human
-Choice of objects is typical Vanitas where passage of life toward death is shown

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Prompt 3:
Mood and Atmosphere
Flack Pics

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  • Photograph of Flack as a young girl adds air of nostalgia
  • As thought Flack is holding onto her youth while faced/ fearful of death coming to us all
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Prompt 3:
Style
Vanitas Symbolic

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  • Vanitas Style of still, where artists creates comp. Of items that represent shortness of life
  • seen in all symbolic objects
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Prompt 3:
Style
Traditional Vanitas Contrast

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-Colours have glossy appearance, gives impression objects are plastic/ contrasts vanitas
- Objects represent shortness of life, seen in symbolic objects used

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Prompt 3:
Scale
Actual size

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  • Painting is 244cm by 244cm square . Extremely large scale
  • Great visual impact, supports the powerful message of life + death
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Prompt 3:
Scale
Viewer engaged

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-Large size makes subject matter is easier to take in for a viewer
- Viewer engages with the painting +subject matter

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Prompt 3
Subject Matter

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Skull- Death
Sand timer/calendar - Passge of time
Lipstick- vanity + obsession w looks

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Social and Cultural Influences
Photography

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  • her work is hyper-realistic
  • Set up Intricate Still life compositions +pics from numerous angles
  • Project image onto large scale canvas so that each object got traced
  • She enjoyed VERY bright colours that photographic print could produce and would painstakingly copy them
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Social + Cultural Influences
Vanitas

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  • Genre of art that uses symbolism to show passage of life/futility of pleasure ans certainty of death
  • She included highly symbolic objects such as the skull - death/ hourglass - passage of time / lit candle - life

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