1999, Cecily Brown, Father of the Bride -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Father of the Bride is one of a series of monumental, ambitious works from the late 1990s in which Brown layered tangles of color around a thinly painted standing figure. With the kaleidoscope of pigment surrounding this central form the artist tackled the complicated legacy of New York School abstraction. Speaking of many of her contemporaries, Brown has said, "As white American males they couldn't paint like an Abstract Expressionist because it was too close, too recent, too American, and too macho, but as an English girl, I could."
Link to a high resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.
1999, Cecily Brown, Father of the Bride -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Father of the Bride is one of a series of monumental, ambitious works from the late 1990s in which Brown layered tangles of color around a thinly painted standing figure. With the kaleidoscope of pigment surrounding this central form the artist tackled the complicated legacy of New York School abstraction. Speaking of many of her contemporaries, Brown has said, "As white American males they couldn't paint like an Abstract Expressionist because it was too close, too recent, too American, and too macho, but as an English girl, I could."
Link to a high resolution close-up photo of details from this painting.
Link to other paintings from the “Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid” exhibition.