017a - Mat Brown - “2020 first century 21: Lapsed Judgment” - Genesis Piece - 1 of 1

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Canadian born artist Mat Brown has been creating and selling original ink drawings on the international market for the last 15 plus years and is part of various international collections, both private and public. Having recently published his first book and completed a second book; Mat’s body of work over the last ten years is not a series of individual pieces but rather one continuous whole comprised of hundreds of drawings that make up a narrative history of the world. Working entirely with ink on paper up to this point Brown is now experimenting with partially digital work, printing digital layers on paper and drawing on these prints with ink to be digitally scanned and printed or sold as an NFT. This work is Mat Brown’s first foray into the NFT market.
 
 
“2020 first century 21: Lapsed Judgment” - Genesis Piece - 1 of 1
by Mat Brown
 
2020 42/63
 
The last judgement is a classic theme in northern renaissance painting and the version by Petrus Christus is the compositional basis for Mat Brown’s “Lapsed Judgment”. This piece takes the concept of good vs evil and turns it into more of a subtle S&M foreplay, not a battle but rather a dance. The arch angel St.Micheal dominating the devil, depicted with the angel as a neural-link cyborg covered in logo tattoos of the various companies responsible for AI and robotics technologies and the devil as the animal power of oil. Creating complex narratives about the western world, Brown takes classical themes from the history of western art and creates a continuity with contemporary culture as if to remind us that our world of flashing lights and digital currency is connected intimately with our past. Filled with easter eggs this piece is set in the dawning of the twenty first century and beginning of the age of Aquariusious; on the left are symbols of the age of Pisces and on the right are symbols for the age of Aquarius. This work is the first half-digitally created artwork by Mat Brown, created by scanning the original pencil sketch and blocking in the background gradient digitally. The digitally coloured background and compositional sketch were printed at full scale on paper and the artist drew in the negative space completing the work; this was then scanned again producing the digital file we see today.
 
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