Cecily Brown on Gerhard Richter | Artists on Artworks

The artist Cecily Brown, known for her energetic and vivid paintings, reflects on the influence of Gerhard Richter's long career as a master painter of both figurative and abstract works. Please note: This event is prerecorded. It has been rescheduled from July 14 to July 21.
Credits:
Cecily Brown Artwork: © Cecily Brown, courtesy of the artist
Photos by Rob McKeever, Genevieve Hanson, Rob McKeever, Two Palms Press
Gerhard Richter artwork: © Gerhard Richter 2020 (20012020)
Featured works by Cecily Brown:
Paradise (Fighting Lions), 2015
Never Trouble Trouble, 2016
Black Painting 2, 2002
1000 Thread Count, 2004
Performance, 1999
Saboteur Four Times, 2019
Untitled, 2019
Bather with Cops, 2018
Video production:
Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producers: Ann Meisinger, Melissa Bell
Editor: Alex Guns
Special thanks to Assistant Curator Brinda Kumar, The Met, for editorial and research
This program is made possible by Christie’s and Joan and Donald J. Gordon.
It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Gerhard Richter: Painting After All.
The exhibition is made possible by the Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation.
Corporate sponsorship is provided by: Morgan Stanley
Major support is provided by David S. Winter and the Modern and Contemporary Art Visiting Committee.
Additional funding is provided by Angela A. Chao and Jim Breyer, Jane C. Carroll, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Kenneth and Rosalind Landis, and the Peterson Family Foundation.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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[@letmetellyousomething123]

Very inspiring interview. Loved the honesty in Cecily's responses to the questions. I've only recently engaged with Cecily Brown's work and she's a tour de force. Bravo for painting!!

[@IamAvidity]

I just found out who Gerhard Richter was on the last Insider Insight from the met so this was a nice follow up to provide more depth into his work. I'm not sure I understand where he was going with all of it but quite a lot of it I really love and keep going back to look at. Thanks for sharing this!

[@alyssarose4220]

One of my favorite looking exercises is to draw a Cecily Brown painting...if you aren't sure what you are looking at in her paintings...what you draw may surprise you!

[@SleepStoriesASMR]

What a fun idea!

[@amberd9383]

I take a photo of my work and turn the saturation all the way down to a B&W ✊🏽🙌🏽🫀

[@conradbo1]

Very interesting and informative. Thank you for uploading. Regards from the Superblur Art Movement.

[@fusain-en-un-seul-souffle]

Très instructif cet interview. Merci 🙏

[@tinatammaro1694]

I was surprised that his Mother and Child painting was of his wife and child. It is a negation. It's not of life. For me, love doesn't exist here even without the crossing out and negating of the "emotive/non-emotive" strokes. All mind, yet doesn't push the intellect. Perhaps a sign of a statement. It's a finish but not complete. A separation from it's subject matters past. Cecily Brown oozes love and journey, pulling us into the space. She negates but to restart rebuild reassess. Gives us so much to want to return to. It is a visual birth and life and renewal.

[@amberd9383]

I was so glad to hear that in 2022 her works are being sold @auction for the 10’ of millions of $$$ She’s finally getting the incredible credit she so deserves✊🏽🫶🏼🙌🏽🤘🏽👄🫀

[@jeanniepawlowski265]

The greatest painter of the 21st Cèntury is Cecily Brown.❤

[@jorge-dominguez]

Muy interesante. Agradecido.

[@henrybogle8437]

Brown is an neo expressionist and Richter's a conceptual painter, comparing apples and oranges.

[@brannonmcclure6970]

Hmmm… pretty; you are. Oh! - Nice work.🧑‍🎨💋⭐️

[@johncastle8254]

Find her work confused and over worked , like richter there’s no contrast ,pollocks paintings have big movements and the colours work and Chaim soutine paintings are lush and alive .

[@colinadevivero]

Garbage conversation

[@oltedders]

Richter is possibly the worst example of a recognized 20th century artist. The sheer volume of pointless and dreary artwork produced by him is staggering. It's impossible to fathom how one man could churn out so much detestable "art". It's truly hideous.

[@onewordhereonewordthere6975]

I concur the only comment I can come up with , no matter how I say it " would be considered harsh" and the attacks would come.

[@tele68]

Perhaps you could provide a context for your comment by stating who you think is the best example of a recognized 20th century artist.

[@stuartwray6175]

A cantankerous comment. unsubstantiated and ultimately futile.

[@christopherwelch7042]

Pointless and dreary... okay. Could you post a link to your art so we can give you a critique?

[@JoeLeasure]

I'd agree he's quite overrated, but this is a bit extreme. At worst his work of the last 30 some years is just very repetitive.