"I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?"

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Source: Cee Lo Green Is Fking Outrageous. Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 5, 2012.

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Cecily Brown

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Cecily Brown is a contemporary British painter known for her dynamic works that explore themes of emotion and the human experience through vibrant colors and abstract forms.

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"I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full."

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