题 目：Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid / 塞西莉·布朗：死亡与女仆

作 者：Ian Alteveer

出 版：Metropolitan Museum of Art ，2023

装 帧：精装，144页

尺 寸：23.5*27.3 cm

《塞西莉·布朗作品亲密调研：静物、死亡寓言与虚无主题交织的艺术探索》

塞西莉·布朗（生于1969年）以其奢华的色彩、大胆的笔触以及与欧洲绘画史上一些最伟大、最历久弥新的主题相关的复杂叙事，深深吸引了观众的目光。这些主题包括静物元素以及通过虚无（vanitas）主题对死亡的沉思。这本对这位备受赞誉的英国画家的亲密调研，重新审视了她的作品。她的创作深受现代艺术大师如威廉·德库宁、菲利普·加斯顿和琼·米切尔，以及古典大师如戈雅、荷加斯、马奈和鲁本斯的影响。

本书收录了布朗迄今为止三十年艺术生涯中的21幅油画和26件纸上作品——包括素描、水彩画、速写本和单色版画，其中不乏近期完成且从未公开发表的作品。通过与艺术家的对话，读者可以深入了解她的创作过程和灵感来源，而一篇富有洞察力的文章则将布朗置于过去五百年伟大艺术家的传承之中。

An intimate survey of Cecily Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work

Cecily Brown (b. 1969) transfixes viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of European painting’s grandest and most time-honored themes, including still life motifs and meditations on mortality through vanitas This intimate survey of the acclaimed British painter reexamines the work of an artist whose influential output references both modern heavyweights, such as Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, and Joan Mitchell, and Old Masters like Goya, Hogarth, Manet, and Rubens. The book features 21 paintings and 26 works on paper—drawings, watercolors, sketchbooks, and monotypes—that span the three decades of Brown’s career to date, including recently completed and never-before published works. A conversation with the artist provides insight into her process and sources, while an insightful essay situates Brown in the lineage of the great artists of the last five hundred years.

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

(April 4–December 3, 2023)