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    Cecily Brown

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    Cecily Brown is a British painter known for her lush and textured paintings that blend influences from Old Masters like Rubens with abstract expressionism. Her 1998 painting "The Girl Who Had Everything" is monumental in scale and captivating in its orgy of colorful, expressive brushwork that oscillates between flesh tones and deep crimson. Brown's work features sexually suggestive figures and biomorphic forms emerging from and dissolving back into the abstract textures and layers of paint, requiring viewers to examine the works closely to bring the erotic images into focus.

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    Cecily Brown

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    Cecily Brown is a British painter known for her lush and textured paintings that blend influences from Old Masters like Rubens with abstract expressionism. Her 1998 painting "The Girl Who Had Everything" is monumental in scale and captivating in its orgy of colorful, expressive brushwork that oscillates between flesh tones and deep crimson. Brown's work features sexually suggestive figures and biomorphic forms emerging from and dissolving back into the abstract textures and layers of paint, requiring viewers to examine the works closely to bring the erotic images into focus.

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    Cecily Brown is a British painter known for her lush and textured paintings that blend influences from Old Masters like Rubens with abstract expressionism. Her 1998 painting "The Girl Who Had Everything" is monumental in scale and captivating in its orgy of colorful, expressive brushwork that oscillates between flesh tones and deep crimson. Brown's work features sexually suggestive figures and biomorphic forms emerging from and dissolving back into the abstract textures and layers of paint, requiring viewers to examine the works closely to bring the erotic images into focus.

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    Cecily Brown

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    Alexis Gail Dizon
    Cecily Brown is a British painter known for her lush and textured paintings that blend influences from Old Masters like Rubens with abstract expressionism. Her 1998 painting "The Girl Who Had Everything" is monumental in scale and captivating in its orgy of colorful, expressive brushwork that oscillates between flesh tones and deep crimson. Brown's work features sexually suggestive figures and biomorphic forms emerging from and dissolving back into the abstract textures and layers of paint, requiring viewers to examine the works closely to bring the erotic images into focus.

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    CECILY BROWN

    THE PAINTER
    • Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Her style
    displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters,
    from Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Joan Mitchell, to
    Old Masters like Rubens, Poussin and Goya. Brown lives and
    works in New York.
    • Cecily Brown makes paintings that give the appearance of
    being in continual flux, alive with the erotic energy of her
    expressive application and vivid color, shifting restlessly
    between abstract and figurative modes.
    "THE GIRL WHO HAD EVERYTHING"
    • A sumptuous frenzy of colour and texture,
    Cecily Brown’s The Girl Who Had
    Everything from 1998 is both monumental
    in scale and utterly captivating in its orgy
    of enflamed painterly gestures.
    • A sensual chorus of pink and red hues
    explodes across the canvas, oscillating
    between rich flesh tones and deep, dark
    crimson. Passages of white flash in and out
    of focus, illuminating half-sketched limbs
    and fleeting glimpses of human bodies.
    Paint accumulates in thick, lustrous layers
    and dissipates in scant rivulets, alive with
    its own seductive power.
    SUBJECT
    • Brown’s The Girl Who Had Everything is a marvellous coalition of
    violence, sensuality, carnal desire and virtuous painterly mark-
    making. Masterfully treading the threshold between beauty and
    abjection, this painting represents Brown at her very finest.

    • The Girl Who Had Everything lures the viewer into a promiscuous
    game of hide-and-seek, whereby an explicit detail will suddenly
    snap into focus. With each glance, the painting evolves into an
    experience of visual pleasure, repeatedly revealing itself to the
    imagination.
    TYPE AND KIND OF SUBJECT
    British artist Cecily Brown is known for her luxurious and
    extremely textured contemporary artworks. Her art is a mix
    between that of the baroque masters and abstract
    expressionism. She mixes color and texture with sexually
    suggestive figures and biomorphic forms that stand out
    against the abstract swirls that dominate her paintings.

    By simply alluding to forms rather than


    offering a concrete representation, the
    artist forces the viewer to examine the
    paintings in depth, from which the erotic
    images come into focus.
    MORE OF THE
    ARTWORK DETAILS

    SIZE 253 x 279.5 cm

    MEDIUM oil on canvas

    CREATION YEAR 1998

    CATEGORY paintings

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