Both Audrey Flack and Franco Clun are amazing artists who take a photograph and then reproduces it creating realistic image using a different medium. Their choices of medium are different as well as their subject matter. Audrey Flack is an educated artist, having received her graduate degree and an honorary doctorate degree from Cooper Union University in New York City as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University (Meisel). Whereas, Franco Clun is a self-taught artist, having learned his craft from books on drawing (Clun). This is something you can see when you compare their work.
“Marilyn” by Flack uses some of the classical elements of a Vanitas painting while incorporating current elements to show the passing of time as …show more content…
Clun works with a mechanical pencil on watercolor paper to bring his wonderful creations to life. It is a simple portrait of an older man wearing what appears to be a hoodie over the top of his head. His use of lines, dots, and shading bring depth and value to the drawing contributing the feel of a black and white photograph. Each line and whisker show the harshness that life has dealt this man. The highlights in the eyes give the viewer insight to this man’s courage. It is a somber piece in which you actually see the damage that time has done to the man along with the elements he has had to face. Clun brings this portrait to life with raw talent, which adds to the beauty of this piece.
It is hard to say which one of these are my favorite as they are both beautiful pieces of art. We see in Flack’s painting this beautiful eloquent homage to Marilyn Monroe and in Clun’s piece, we see this beautiful raw portrait of a man who has had to deal with the harshness of life. They both use the elements of photorealism while one does so with color and the other with only a pencil. We see the use of texture and reflection in both