![]() ![]() 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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