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Born 1969 London, England. Known for: Abstract figurative, animal, landscape.
Having moved from London to New York in the mid 1990s, Cecily Brown has a studio in Manhattan from which she creates painterly paintings, some with elements of landscape. Much of her early work had... Read full biography
Having moved from London to New York in the mid 1990s, Cecily Brown has a studio in Manhattan from which she creates painterly paintings, some with elements of landscape. Much of her early work had overtly sexual imagery, but her painting in the early 21st century verges on the pastoral although... Read full biography
Having moved from London to New York in the mid 1990s, Cecily Brown has a studio in Manhattan from which she creates painterly paintings, some with elements of landscape. Much of her early work had overtly sexual imagery, but her painting in the early 21st century verges on the pastoral although she says she has an ongoing interest in the figurative. Brown was raised in a suburb of London by her mother Shena Mackay and Robin Brown whom she thought was her father. But later she learned that her... Read full biography
Having moved from London to New York in the mid 1990s, Cecily Brown has a studio in Manhattan from which she creates painterly paintings, some with elements of landscape. Much of her early work had overtly sexual imagery, but her painting in the early 21st century verges on the pastoral although she says she has an ongoing interest in the figurative. Brown was raised in a suburb of London by her mother Shena Mackay and Robin Brown whom she thought was her father. But later she learned that her father was David Sylvester, British art historian and critic, whom her mother often took her to visit. He and Cecily became close friends, and when she was 22, she learned from her mother that Sylvester was her father. She attended Slade School in... Read full biography
Having moved from London to New York in the mid 1990s, Cecily Brown has a studio in Manhattan from which she creates painterly paintings, some with elements of landscape. Much of her early work had overtly sexual imagery, but her painting in the early 21st century verges on the pastoral although she says she has an ongoing interest in the figurative. Brown was raised in a suburb of London by her mother Shena Mackay and Robin Brown whom she thought was her father. But later she learned that her father was David Sylvester, British art historian and critic, whom her mother often took her to visit. He and Cecily became close friends, and when she was 22, she learned from her mother that Sylvester was her father. She attended Slade School in London and took lessons from the painter Maggi Hambling and also used his studio. She began her paintings with sexual themes, but felt like... Read full biography
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Keywords (18)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Pastoral Landscape
Art School
- •Slade School of Art, London, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty