Robert Delford Brown

Who was Robert Delford Brown?

Robert Delford Brown was an American performance artist. The New York Times called him "a painter, sculptor, performance artist and avant-garde philosopher whose exuberantly provocative works challenged orthodoxies of both the art world and the world at large, usually with a big wink." Deborah Velders of the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, N.C. called him "a visionary" and "the William Blake of our time."

Allan Kaprow, credited with originating the Happening movement in the early 1960s, said of Robert Delford Brown:

The ecstatic power that has marked Brown's art since the 1960s threw a monkey wrench into the avant garde in those days. He was a visionary you couldn't ignore or forget. Brown's work is important. He touches a nerve at the core of the social codes that organize not only our behavior but also the limits of our art… Robert Delford Brown's transcendent vision takes on a great significance.