GLENN BROWN: COLOR Glenn Brown is an English artist from London whose paintings is finely crafted and often comments on other paintings, copying them but with a twist. Moving from the sweet to the sickly sweet, Glenn Brown makes photo-realistic paintings by mixing together reproductions of other artists' work. From a distance Brown's version appears identical, but on closer inspection is revealed to be painted completely different. There was some controversy over his exhibition at the 2000 Turner Prize, as the artist Tony Roberts closely based one of the paintings on a science-fiction illustration Double Star produced in 1973. This gave rise to a charge of plagiarism. Brown eventually settled the resulting legal action out of court. I chose this artist because his unique but yet controversial style of painting interests me the most. I believe the reason why we have today’s pieces of art is because something from past artist has inspired us. I believe that early artists inspire Glenn Brown, but he does not copy them.
Brown presents large, meticulously wrought oils inspired by sci-fi imagery and paintings by Salvador Dali and Frank Auerbach. Some critics refer to Brown as an appropriation artist, and he has faced copyright infringement litigation mounted by a number of detractors ranging from pulp novel illustrators to the Dali Foundation. The London-based artist's interpretations of earlier artworks, however, are wildly imaginative. Using a painstaking technique with nearly imperceptible brushwork, ultra-slick surfaces and a witty play on scale and color.
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