Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown's paintings have fluidity to them - plenty of oil is used on the surface of the canvas which creates a sense of flow and motion as the paint blends together. The content of the imagery itself may be slightly more negative and grotesque, but Brown buries this underneath folds and swirls of paint, leaving remainders of the original image as clues to the viewer of what they are looking at. I really like how hazy and blurry this particular painting is; as though it is a dream or memory that keeps drifting out of focus. I like that the painting style is leaning towards abstraction in a lot of Brown's work, and there is something aesthetically pleasing about the paint, but then slightly more sinister images unravel in the paint. I am interested in creating paintings with elements similar to this one - with parts that are blurry and hazy, and slightly cover a more negative undertone. I'm not interested in creating paintings that are fluid and painterly all over in the same sense of this; I want there to be parts of the image that are more blurry, and other detailed elements to create contrast within the image. I want there to be a focused element; so that the viewer has a focal point and then can try and work out the rest of the image which fades away to nothing. I like this technique to try and recreate how memories drift in and out of focus in our mind; and the edges sometimes fading away completely.