The Artist's Father and more art by Glenn Brown

(Commissioned Print & Gift Print, 2016)

Contemporary British artist Glenn Brown selects images from the Old Masters and then alters them by stretching, distorting, and compressing them on a computer. To create his line etching for Print Club, Brown used Rembrandt’s etching The Artist’s Father, ca. 1630, as his starting point. After transferring the computer-manipulated image to the plate, Brown used an etching needle to draw intricate line work that evokes Rembrandt’s direct drypoint scrawling, as well as a more calligraphic, late 16th-century Mannerist line work. The artist wrote, “I have no option other than to appropriate or transpose the images the world has thrown at me…I hope to create a strangeness by bringing together examples of the way the best historic and modern-day artists have depicted their personal sense of the world.”
Brown’s etching for Print Club was etched and printed at Paupers’ Press in London.