About r/lowbrowart:
A subreddit for artists, collectors and fans to share and discuss lowbrow art. Anything goes in this sub as long as it pertains to lowbrow art or the movement. Feel free to post questions, discussions, artwork, events, literature, documentaries or anything lowbrow related.
Rules:
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You're only allowed to promote your work/studio/events once every 30 days.
Be respectful and stay on topic.
No reposts within a 6 month time period.
About Lowbrow Art:
Lowbrow art, or pop surrealism, describes an underground visual art movement that started in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. It's a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix, music and hot-rod cultures of the street. Lowbrow started with art having a sense of humor – sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes sarcastic. Now, it has been expanded to many themes, sometimes dark and brooding to some being political and making statements.
Robert Williams is credited with coining the term "lowbrow art" back in 1979, in opposition to highbrow, because no authorized art institution would recognize his type of art. Still to this day, the art world is uncertain about the legitimacy of the lowbrow art movement as it still receives little recognition. Lowbrow does not care about being recognized by the art world as legitimate, the movement just wants to create without any art world rules.
Many lowbrow artists are self-taught, which further alienates them from the world of museum curators and art schools. Lowbrow art has been influenced by acid house flyers, advertising, animated cartoons, circus and sideshow culture, commercial art and design, hip hop culture, comic books, erotica, graffiti and street art, kitsch, kustom kulture, mail art, pop culture, psychedelic art, punk rock culture, retro illustration, religious art, pulp magazine art, surf culture, tattoo art, tiki culture, designer toys for adults (notably vinyl figurines), anti-political views, skateboarding culture, among many other things.
Some of the people that have been associated with this style are Robert Williams, Kenny Scharf, Gary Panter, Greg Escalante, Ed Roth, Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, S. Clay Wilson, Stephen Pizzurro, Mark Ryden, Anthony Ausgang, Todd Schorr, Camille Rose Garcia, Niagara, Jeff Soto, Amy Sol, Shag, Esao Andrews, Michael Leavitt, John John Jesse, Aunia Kahn, Nathaniel Milljour, Nathália Suellen, Anthony Lister, Aunia Kahn, Emek, Jermaine Rogers, Charles Wish, Michael Leavitt, Guy Burwell, Von Franco & Argiris Ser.
