Thursday, August 15, 2013

Wild Horses



Glenn Brown, Wild Horses, 2007
In Wild Horses, Glenn Brown distorts Jean Baptiste-Greuze’s Innocence (c.1790), a portrait of a young woman with a cherub-like face, draped in a swath of fabric tenderly cradling a lamb in her arms. Brown transforms the seemingly romantic image of purity and youth into a contemporary representation of the bizarre and the fantastic; the woman’s eyes have no pupils and her flesh morphs into swirling brushstrokes of acid yellow, and the lamb is displayed as vivid red with green eyes. By recontextualizing and mutating the original image, Brown’s masterful technique imbues it with another reading, inviting the viewer to examine the medium, the subject and the notion of beauty.






via http://www.flagartfoundation.org/exhibition/67/description

This link gives you a really close look at Glenn Brown's swirling technique. 
Jean Baptiste Greuze, Innocence, 1970

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