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Pleasure Principle.(Brief article)
Byline: DODIE KAZANJIAN editor: Valerie Steiker
Cecily Brown's paintings have always led a very active sex life, with abstract and figurative elements cohabiting in roiling, virtuoso seas of paint. In her new show, opening this month at the Gagosian Gallery on Twenty-fourth Street in Chelsea, the 39-year-old British-born artist, who regularly plunders art history for source material, takes on Goya, Ensor, and Van Eyck, and in four huge and voluptuous paintings inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, she applies her manifold skills to darker themes. "I think of these as more tragic than romantic," she says. "At least they're not romantic in the sense of falling in love."
Bosch aside, Brown seems more ardent and energetic than ever. Just married to New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, she has produced an exciting new ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Gilmore, Jonathan July 1, 2002 700+ words
In Cecily Brown's new paintings, throngs of bacchanalian bunnies invade pastoral settings rendered with such heavily worked and frenetic brush...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Leffingwell, Edward July 1, 2000 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: W Belcove, Julie L. July 1, 2004 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF August 18, 2009 700+ words
NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF International Herald Tribune 08-18-2009 Must cost-cutting...cost- cutting mean a downscaling of creative vision? Byline: NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF Section: Architectural Review Type: News The modest new Herzog...
