Layered Portraits (after Lucian Freud)
Glenn Brown, 2008
These layered portraits were created by Brown selecting a number of prints by Freud, then digitally manipulating scanned reproductions of them, superimposing several images on top and finally creating etching plates from the image files. The result is an intense concentration of personality, which becomes both a portrait of the source artist, Lucian Freud, but also of Brown himself. These prints are psychological portraits, or anti portraits, visions of an art history which is an accumulation of portraits of the past, from the Renaissance portraits, which influenced FreudÂ’s early work, through Rembrandt, up to Lucian Freud and the present day.
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Title of artwork, date
Layered Portraits (after Lucian Freud), 2008
Date supported
2011
Medium and material
Etchings on paper
Dimensions
75 x 94 cm
Grant
5000
Total cost
10800

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