Glen Brown is an English artist who focuses in appropriation art. Brown takes other images as a base and alters the images in his own ways and creates a different and extremely interesting image. He has been accused in the past of copying and plagiarizing the images. Brown is quoting in saying: "To make something up from scratch is nonsensical. Images are a language. It's impossible to make a painting that is not borrowed - even the images in your dreams refer to reality." When I look at Brown's images I think they are extremely interesting and he has a way of changing the images to make them completely his own. If he were to take the images and copy them and alter them via computer or print screen then my opinion may differ, but he is an extremely talented artist and does in fact change the art enough to call his own. The real question is to what degree does a painting of piece of work need to be changed to call one's own? ...
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