Delia Brown
DELIA BROWN GETS SERIOUS, SORT OF
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
The Los Angeles artist
Delia Brown’s compelling new cycle of narrative paintings, titled “Felicity and Caprice,” conflates the allegorical manner of
Jean Honore Fragonard with the saucy storytelling of Jacqueline Susann. Actually, the tale told by Brown’s series of some two dozen 8 x 12 in. oil-on-board works is derived from Claude Chabrol’s 1968 film
Les Biches, whose title is typically translated as
The Does but might be more freely rendered as
The Bad Girls.
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