Michael Brown

Website

http://michaelbrownart.co.uk

Relationship status

in a relationship

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

Michael Brown Artist England

About my artwork

My style of work best relates to abstract expressionism or action painting from the 40s and 50s. Following the 2nd World War, new movement emerged in New York of Neo Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock. Work of this nature ascended the artist to genius and art of this period was a break away from academia and most other known artistic movements, although it has its roots in Surrealism. Pollock defined his work as “the act of painting itself . Opening the experience of painter through the act of painting alone”

Practice: My work is primarily abstract. I use a profusion of colour or monotone.
I have straddled my practice between intentionality and spontaneity, cultivating a perfect relationship between having no idea and at the same time complete confidence. Each piece is inspired by a delicate investigation in the unknown, abandoning all outcome. Once I have made this discovery its all over and ends immaculately without interference. Then there is literally nothing more to do.

I am interested in continuously expanding boundaries and overcoming limitations, eliminating all forms of artistic authority. I hope to correspond to a pull that is somewhere there within us all.

In my own understanding the significance of art is to clearly express the inner experience outwardly without nostalgia. It is the responsibility of the art and artist to ignite a discussion which is relevant to our time and place without the need to hide behind elaborate artistic equations.

The painting of Mike Brown is rich in both movement and expression.
Notably, the school of abstract expressionism has traditionally
recognized an impulsive act of “flinging” color onto a painting surface
as a means significant in itself. The freshness of the paint application
intends to focus our perception more on that creative moment of its
becoming instead of the finished picture.
In addition, pursuing expressive motives over and beyond the aesthetics
of shape or color might simply be one way for Mike Brown to nurture a
healthy skepticism, a frame of mind most important for maintaining
critical reflection on artistic incentive and the immediate direction
that the painting is to take as it unfolds. As we “read” his work we
learn to see how brush and paint were guided throughout the course of
the painting, prizing both melody and tone as an outcome.
His art work would seem to remind us that as humans we are transient,
and of the futileness in trying to grasp art entirely. Moreover,
observing his painting can lead one to distinguish ever more closely,
beholding a work of art for the moment - in its fragility as something
most precious.
Frederick D. Bunsen M.A.
Rottenburg a.N., Germany 2009

Artists I like

De kooning, Francis bacon, Michael Brown, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Frederick Bunsen, anything else which is not merely for decoration.

Interests

Art and the fact its ungraspable. Art if you avoid the subject.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

I probably missed it.