"Three years ago he opened The Brown Collection in Marylebone, not far from Frieze London. The free-to-visit museum is extending its opening hours during Frieze Week (9am to 7pm) and will be showing the exhibition Hoi Polloi, which looks at how ordinary people have been represented in art from the 16th century onwards, alongside related works by Brown."
""All of my work is based on other artist's work," Brown told The Art Newspaper in a recent interview. "I appropriate artists and combine their work together into my paintings-so when I look at my work I'm thinking of other artists and I here want to give them credit.""
"The first proper artwork I bought was a coloured crayons and pencil on paper drawing by David Hockney of Renée McDougal from 1964. The drawing has strong, awkward lines that make Hockney's early drawings so enigmatic. The paper had yellowed through the years but after restoration the beautiful pinks and green crayons could properly shine again, as Hockney intended."
Glenn Brown's paintings begin with reproductions of historic and contemporary pictures, including works by Rembrandt, Velázquez, Renoir and John Martin, and transform heavy brushwork into meticulously flat surfaces. Brown opened The Brown Collection in Marylebone three years ago as a free-to-visit museum that pairs works from his collection with his own. The Brown Collection extended hours during Frieze Week for an exhibition, Hoi Polloi, about representations of ordinary people from the 16th century onward. Gagosian presents a Studio installation of Brown's new paintings, drawings and a sculpture at Frieze Masters. Brown also shows work in dialogue with objects at the Freud Museum.
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