{"id":59,"date":"2025-04-17T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/?p=59"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:03:21","slug":"self-portrait-holding-charcoal-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/self-portrait-holding-charcoal-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Portrait Holding Charcoal Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audrey Flack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>American, 1931-2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Self Portrait Holding Charcoal Stick, <\/em><\/strong><strong>1956<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Oil on canvas, <\/strong><strong>40 x 28 1\/4 inches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gift of the Artist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1993.39<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-768x1098.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-1433x2048.jpg 1433w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/files\/2025\/04\/1993.39-scaled.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audrey Flack was a painter and sculptor who believed art was a visual representation of what we feel and how we think. She understood art as a protest to death and after her passing in 2024 the featured artwork, <em>Self Portrait Holding Charcoal Stick, <\/em>stands to that testament.<em> <\/em>The image of the artist, waist high, is relentlessly frontal and commanding. Right hand on hip, and left across her body holding the charcoal, she is framed by vertical lines of paint in mostly blue and oranges, and the paint drips from her torso. Though the style of painting is quite different, the image recalls Bronzino\u2019s ca. 1540 <em>Portrait of Lucretia Panciatichi<\/em>, a beauty with an equally confronting gaze.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Audrey Flack American, 1931-2024 Self Portrait Holding Charcoal Stick, 1956 Oil on canvas, 40 x 28 1\/4 inches Gift of the Artist 1993.39 Audrey Flack <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/2025\/04\/self-portrait-holding-charcoal-stick\/\" title=\"Self Portrait Holding Charcoal Stick\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1564,"featured_media":94,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spring-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/from-the-collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}