Glenn Brown (artist)

Glenn Brown (born 1966 in Hexham, Northumberland ) is a British painter and sculptor who was nominated in 2000 for the Turner Prize.

Life and work

Glenn Brown was born in 1966 in Hexam. From 1984 to 1992, he took courses at the Norwich School of Art, the Bath College of Higher Education and at Goldsmith 's College in London. An important influence on him was the work of Gerhard Richter.

Brown is suitable topics of images that have been created both by living artists such as Frank Auerbach, Georg Baselitz and Howard Hodgkin as well as historically established artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Fragonard and Salvador Dalí, and gives them his own specific expression. Brown's paintings have a trompe l'oeil - illusion in their style of painting. The titles are not always understandable for the viewer, this means a painting from 2001, Joseph Beuys (after Rembrandt), whose model was created by Rembrandt's painting of the wizard son Titus. "Maybe put in it really an extroverted boy with earring, necklace and hat - I like opposites ," the artist spoke about his work.

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  • Loves of Shepherds (after Double Star 'by Tony Roberts ), 2000

There was some controversy at the award ceremony of the Turner Prize in 2000, as his image Loves of Shepherds had a great resemblance to the science- fiction illustration Double Star Artist Tony Roberts in 1973. The Turner Prize was awarded this year to the German Wolfgang Tillmans. Brown was also suitable individual space scene photos of Chris Foss on by having them copied in one case and modified ( Exercise One ( for Ian Curtis ), 1995 ), and in the other case It left entirely unchanged ( Dark Angel ( for Ian Curtis ), 2002 respectively) ie an accusation of plagiarism result had. The resulting litigation was completed out of court.

Since 2008, Brown turned to the earlier experiments to the screen printed etching. With the help of the computer and the software Photoshop, he created his Layered Portraits by one over the other coated up to 15 portrait etchings and drawings of Rembrandt eraser, Urs Graf and Lucian Freud and digitally manipulated until a new plant was built. After transfer to the printing plate and printing, the templates show through to some extent. He calls it " my schizophrenic portraits ".

In 2009, Brown claimed that it was nonsensical, brand new produce paintings. Pictures are like languages. It was impossible to produce an image that is not borrowed. "Even the images in your dreams refer to reality. " The reclusive painter - he can not always photograph - has his studio in East London in a former school, the Rochelle School. Atelier neighbors are, for example, Michael Raedecker and Goshka Macuga, who were also both nominated for the Turner Prize.

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