page_title: Glenn Brown (artist)
section_title: Etchings
hierarchical_section_title: Glenn Brown (artist) / Etchings
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Half-Life (after Rembrandt) 1' (2016) Etching on paper, Velin Arches 400 gsm 76 x 56 cm (29 7/8 x 22 1/8 in) image; 89 x 68 cm (35 x 26 3/4 in)
context_page_description: Glenn Brown CBE is a British artist. He is known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. 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. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism.
  His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, France; Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Tate Liverpool, England, which travelled to the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest;
context_section_description: In 2008 Brown created a series of prints entitled "Layered Etchings (Portraits)" which were inspired by the artists Urs Graf, Rembrandt and Lucian Freud. Brown scanned a vast number of reproductions from books and digitally manipulated them by stretching them to standard sizes. He then layered selected scans over each other, resulting in single images for which a handful of etching plates were made. The many contour and incarnation lines of the original works (the artist used up to fifteen different image sources for one layered portrait), as well as the textured spots of lithographic printing, obscure the sitters' individual identities. The resulting half-length portraits are "de-individualised" by the deliberate accumulation of too many portraits over each other.
  The etchings were collated in Glenn Brown: Etchings (Portraits), published by Ridinghouse in 2009 which featured a specially commissioned text by John-Paul Stonard that discusses elements of the old and the new in the portraits as they embody concepts of destruction and the violence of appropriation.
caption: 'Half-Life (after Rembrandt) 1' (2016) Etching on paper, Velin Arches 400 gsm 76 x 56 cm (29 7/8 x 22 1/8 in) image; 89 x 68 cm (35 x 26 3/4 in)
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