He claims that the references to these artists are not direct quotations, but alterations and combinations of several works by different artists, although the artists whose work is appropriated do not always agree. 'On the Way to the Leisure Centre' (2017) Oil on panel, 122 x 244 x 2.2 cm (48 1/8 x 96 1/8 x 7/8 in)īrown appropriates images by living, working artists, such as Frank Auerbach and Georg Baselitz, as well as paintings by historical artists, such as Guido Reni, Diego Velázquez, Anthony van Dyck, Rembrandt, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Eugène Delacroix, John Martin, Gustave Courbet, Adolph Menzel, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Chaïm Soutine and Salvador Dalí. degree at Goldsmiths College (1990–1992). degree in Fine Art at Bath School of Art and Design (1985–1988), followed by an M.A. Education īrown completed his Foundation Course at Norwich School of Art & Design (1985) and later on received a B.A. īrown was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to art. However, his exhibition at Tate Britain for the Turner Prize sparked some controversy, as one of his paintings was found to be closely based on the science-fiction illustration 'Double Star' created by the artist Tony Roberts in 1973. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000. īrown currently resides and works in London and Suffolk, England. He has had a number of solo exhibitions: at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2004, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 2008, at Tate Liverpool in 2009 (later shown at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin), at the Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest in 2010, and at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, in Provence, in 2016. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size. Glenn Brown CBE (born 1966 in Hexham, Northumberland) is a British artist known for the use of appropriation in his paintings.

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