![]() ![]() ![]() Bracewell, 'Concerning the Art of Glenn Brown', Glenn Brown: Three Exhibitions, exh. As Brown has described, 'I like the idea of painting a decrepit or melancholic skull that could also have the sensibility of dance music' (Brown, quoted in M. The skeleton appears sensible to the title of its composition, a 2006 recording of the same title by Depeche Mode that laments, 'where were you when I fell from grace? Frozen heart.Still I believe. It is a powerful image that confounds its flat, smoothly painted surface with a certain dynamism each small coloured detail bristling like flesh as it slowly decomposes and deteriorates. Set against a romantic and untainted turquoise sky, the skeleton grins through its decayed smile, inclining its head forward as if sensitive to the responses it elicits. ![]() Existing somewhere between life and death, Brown's giant skeleton, pulses with a plenitude of fine brush strokes in red, ochre, mustard yellow, black and blue. (Brown, quoted in 'Laurence Sillars in Conversation with Glenn Brown', Liverpool 2009, p.142).Įxecuted in 2007, the extraordinary detail and painterly devotion of Suffer Well represents an outstanding and large-scale example of Glenn Brown's mastery of oil paint. It's a cruel joke on death and nothingness, perhaps' You keep looking at it only to reject it in favour of the skull. 'The black square in the corner of Suffer Well is there to irritate. ![]()
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