Movie “Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack” Peacock

The Rossmoor Art Association (RAA) will show the film, “Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack” on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. in the Peacock Hall Theater.

Audrey Lenora Flack (May 30, 1931 – June 28, 2024) was an American visual artist. Her work pioneered the art genre of photorealism and encompasses painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography. Her work evolved from abstract expressionism in the 1950’s to photo realism in the 1970’s.

Flack’s work is displayed in several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flack’s photorealistic paintings were the first such paintings to be purchased for the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, and her legacy as a photorealist lives on to influence many American and International artists today. J. B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, organized a retrospective of her work, and Flack’s pioneering efforts into the world of photorealism popularized the genre to the extent that it remains today.