![]() 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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