![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You’d think that was bad enough, but when there’s so much worse, it gives one a second to pause and weigh the rock in ones hand. This guy at least copied it with his own hands. The reason I didn’t pick up a stone and hurl it myself was simply because I had the feeling, whatever was going on, that Brown painted the picture himself, which is a far, far cry from Jeff Koons or Damien Hirst hiring over a hundred assistants each to do their work for them. Easy to see why people are in an uproar, until one digs a little beneath the surface. Right: painting by Glenn Brown which sold for $5.7 million in an art auction. The author, Glendon Mellow, shared a pic of two paintings, side by side, one by sci-fi artist Chris Foss, and the other by Glenn Brown. First lets look at the attack which appeared in Scientific American, of all places, titled, How Plagiarized Art Sells for Millions. You got the wrong man! I don’t agree at all with the rationale behind the fistfuls of shit being hurled at Glenn Brown for his paintings based on the paintings of others. ![]()
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