“It’s like 1967”, says a visitor. Artists, writers, friends and clients are gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in honor of Cecily Brown, a British painter who arrived in Manhattan in the early 1990s and to whom the museum is granting a retrospective. Title Death and the Maida title derived from the quartet The Maiden and Death the Schubert [Death and the Maiden, en anglais]this one is held until December 3rd.
The last living British artist to receive such a tribute is Lucian Freud [1922-2011]in the mid-1990s.
A storyteller
A New York critic described the reception that followed the exhibition’s opening [le 4 avril] as “a quivering stuffed with estrogen, a generational shift, artistically and socially”. Another previously said: “Brown is refurbishing everything that was old.”
His figurative abstractions tell stories, often several at the same time, activating every square centimeter of the canvas: the works on display are energized by this attention and return the favour. “It’s beyond a dream”, Brown told The Observer after opening. “I feel like I’m bragging just talking about it.”
If painters are storytellers, Cecily Brown has stories to tell and they can be barbaric, frayed and sketchy. No better place to display them then than the Met, which calls for art and artefact hoarders.
Eros and Thanatos
Cecily Brown [née en 1969] left London after graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art at one time, that of the Young British Artists [“jeunes artistes britanniques”, un mouvement apparu à la fin des années 1980 et qui a entre autres inclus Damien Hirst et Tracey Amin], where painting was no longer fashionable. Many of those who would later succeed looked beyond the brush and the palette.
Early in her career, she was praised for the sexual aspect of her works, which often expressed itself through frolicking rabbits and, more
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