Artist field note

Cecily Brown

The body dissolves into paint.

The Girl Who Had Everything by Cecily Brown
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The Girl Who Had Everything

1998

Figuration nearly disappears inside brushwork. Looking becomes an act of finding and losing.

The five in one idea

Brown makes the act of looking mirror desire itself: recognition arrives, slips away and returns.