Cecily Brown

by Jeff Fleming, Linda Nochlin, Cecily Brown (Artist)

Known for her lush surfaces, vivid color, and energetic brushwork, Cecily Brown inhabits her torrid, atmospheric paintings with life forms that swim amongst swells of color and gesture. Often cast in sensual situations, her figures advance and recede into painterly abstraction. With her various references to art history-- from the seventeenth-century French Classicism of Nicolas Poussin to the Baroque flamboyance of Peter Paul Rubens and the living gestures of Willem de Kooning, among other Abstract Expressionists--Brown reinvigorates twenty-first-century painting. Working alongside the traditions of the medium, and borrowing freely from them, Brown absorbs formerly male-dominated approaches to painting, unapologetically infusing a feminine viewpoint. This publication, which accompanies the first one-person museum survey of Brown's work in the United States, features three major new essays by Jeff Fleming, Linda Norden and Linda Nochlin, as well as a series of key color reproductions.

Genres: Art

80 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[Stephan Ferreira · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was available to me during an exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston back in 2006. But I didn't buy a copy until visiting again in 2007. Kinda pricey for the small amount of writing and collected images...but great since it's one of the only ones...yet.