The scenes may have been relatively normal to Rembrandt or Fragonard but because of the passage of time and the difference in culture, to me they are fantastical.” When he finds convenient composition, he approaches to applying of paint in a very specific way, making the illusion of thick and heavy layers with the thin brushes and elongated twisted strokes, achieving the opposite effect of flat, digitally processed surface. It’s those fictions that I take as subject matter. Their sources of inspiration suggest things I would never normally see – rocks floating in far-off galaxies, for example, or a bowl of flowers in an 18th-century room, or a child in a fancy-dress costume. I see their worlds from multiple or schizophrenic perspectives, through all their eyes. I hope to create a sense of strangeness by bringing together examples of the way the best historic and modern-day artists have depicted their personal sense of the world. Frankenstein, constructing paintings out of the residue or dead parts of other artist’s work. Exploit the reproductions usually found on the internet, he changes the image using the Photoshop, making different distortions, stretching, turning and changing the color of both objects and the surface.

Starting from the appropriation – borrowing the pieces of living or historical artists, he transforms their appearance, adjusting color and forms and creating a totally new body of work. He gained his education at Norwich School of Art, Bath College of Higher Education and Goldsmith’s College at the University of London. Glenn Brown - Darsham Songs, 2016 Reviving the History of Artīrown was born in 1966 in Northumberland, England.

This British artist transforms borrowed images by changing its color, position, and size, creating abstract and grotesque, still fascinating figures that seem to be painted with impasto technique, but the effect is actually accomplished with the application of thin, spiral brushstrokes which create a completely flat surface. Merging the various epochs such as Renaissance, Impressionism or Surrealism, his works gradually develop and although start from reproductions of other artists, they become compelling independent entities.

Through appropriation and investigation, the artist breathes new life and contemporary look into old and outdated forms. Using the art historical and popular culture references, Glenn Brown creates a distinctive visual language that goes beyond known pictorial conventions.

Glenn brown paintings