![]() The paint is now a solid, dry mass, but it sure looks like it’s about to slip off the bronze figure like ice cream into a sticky heap.Īs Brown himself says, his work is full of trickery, surfaces and mediums and time periods often masquerading as something or somewhere else. Noticing her mother has moved on, she hurries out of the gallery before an answer comes. “Is this wet paint?” the girl asks no one in particular, moving her face close to the glass. Here, Brown has partially suffocated a bronze casting of a cherubic boy in chunky pastel paint globs, pushing the impasto technique to its physical limits. The piece is “Trivial Pursuit” by the Brit Glenn Brown, one of the world’s most distinctive and sought-after contemporary artists, a new master in the tradition of the old masters, but with a twist. On an early summer afternoon, a young girl, maybe 8 or 9, lags behind her mother to take a closer look at a sculpture encased in glass at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. ![]()
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