Banana Split Sundae
1980
20th century
18 in. x 24 in. (45.72 cm x 60.96 cm)
Audrey Flack,
American,
b. 1931
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
collotype and embossing on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of John D. Levine, class of 1958
Accession Number:
1998.176
Audrey Flack uses the still-life genre to celebrate sensual pleasures central to the female experience. Her 1970s hyper-realist representations of dressing-table tops cluttered with make-up embody a feminist embrace of the "art" of make-up. This print, with its eye-catching palette, also invokes the pleasures of taste. Recently Flack presents over-life sized sculptures of classical goddesses, given new life by modern feminism.
From the Presidential Portfolio, commissioned by Joan Mondale.