Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism)
ローブロウ / 1979– / Style / Illustration Styles
Painting from outside the museum, raised on hot rods, comics, tattoos and B movies — pop memory rendered in precise oil technique, institutionalized as Pop Surrealism around Juxtapoz magazine.
Pop-culture iconography / Precise classical technique / Uneasy humor / Street-born heraldry
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Robert Williams / Mark Ryden / custom culture and Von Dutch