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The Powerful Eroticism of Cecily Brown
This is a particularly rich Rizzoli publication for Gagosian Gallery devoted to the art of the one whose name forms the title of this monograph - CECILY BROWN. Brown is a young painter whose style falls somewhere in the transition zone between abstract expressionism and figurative painting: few artists have succeeded to this level as well, a level that includes Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud, Jean Rustin and Willem de Kooning. She manages to cast thick layers of paint on her canvases that in and of themselves are quasi three dimensional creations of wildly imaginative combinations of color, but she doesn't stop there. Sometimes buried in all of this action painting are stories of erotic encounters, barely discernible until the eye finds the subjects: the cover of the book is the riotously sexual `1000 Thread Count' in which the viewer must invest time to find the core images in this lushly colorful cacophony of brush strokes. At other times her canvases are frankly sexual, as in...
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May 29, 2009
(Los Angeles, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Beautiful book
Nice full colour plates, also some great close ups of the brushwork and detail. I'm pleased with my purchase, well worth the money.
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October 4, 2010
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Product Description
Cecily Brown creates lush, visceral canvases based on a combination of figuration and abstraction. Her technical proficiency has earned her comparisons to Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon, yet it is her unique ability to convey the pleasurable and fleeting aspects of sensation that drive her work.Cecily Brown rapidly rose to success in the late 1990's, and was credited with having contributed to the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium. With a visual repertoire indebted as much to the classical themes of the old masters as to porn magazines and Hollywood films, Brown’s paintings challenge traditional interpretations and compel us to reconsider the act of painting from a decidedly feminine viewpoint. Top to learn more
IndieReader Review
From The Gagosian GalleryCecily Brown creates lush, visceral canvases based on a combination of figuration and abstraction. Her technical proficiency has earned her comparisons to Lucian Freud, Willem de Kooning, and Francis Bacon, yet it is her unique ability to convey the pleasurable and fleeting aspects of sensation that drive her work.Cecily Brown rapidly rose to success in the late 1990's, and was credited with having contributed to the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium. With a visual repertoire indebted as much to the classical themes of the old masters as to porn magazines and Hollywood films, Brown's paintings challenge traditional interpretations and compel us to reconsider the act of painting from a decidedly feminine viewpoint.By Dore Ashton with Lari Pittman and Gagosian GalleryReviewed by IR Staff
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January 14, 2012
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