![]() ![]() His disregard for convention or expectation within fine art, in conjunction with his wide use of appropriation, has come to be a hallmark of Brown’s practice.īorn in 1966 in Northumberland, England, Brown studied at the Bath School of Art as well as Goldsmith’s College, the later of which has oriented him within the Young British Painters group alongside Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Liam Gillick, among others. Often his alterations of the original source material results in subject matter that is uncanny, or even grotesque. The result was a novel take on traditional fine art, and Brown’s subsequent oeuvre is largely based on the same process: appropriating reproduction imagery – from artists such as Auerbach, Salvador Dalí and Rembrandt-and transforming them by way of scale, color or decoration. ![]() ![]() Rather than look to the original paintings by Auerbach, however, Brown instead focused on poor reproductions that were devoid of the gestural impasto, a singular trait of Auerbach’s work. ![]() Known for his ironic, if not irreverent, use of appropriation, artist Glenn Brown first came to prominence in the early 1990s with a series of paintings that reproduced imagery from portraits by Frank Auerbach. ![]()
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