Lowbrow Art

They're Not Dolls! They're Action Figures--and Art! DesignerCon Plays Around in Pasadena

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jose Hernandez, Lowbrow Art, Designcon, Doktor A, Ron English, Vinyl Toys, Pop Art, November 20, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Mictlan, Fashion, Los Angeles News
Lisa Derrick

Vinyl toys are some of the hottest collectibles around. Some feature obscure anime and manga characters, some are creatures from myths old and new; ...

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Does LowBrow Art Follow in Comic Art Propaganda Footsteps?

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comic Books, Film Noir, Art, Lowbrow Art, Propaganda, Christianity, Contemporary Art, War on Drugs, Gothic, Book Review, Arts News
Mat Gleason

If one art form has the power to seduce, shame or otherwise influence us into behaving a certain way, what does that say about art in general?

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Frances Bean Cobain (aka Fiddle Tim) "Scumf#@!" at La Luz De Jesus Gallery

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Courtney Love, Alyson Souza, Jim Jones, Art World, Nirvana, Fiddle Tim, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kurt Cobain, Lowbrow Art, Frances Bean Cobain, Gg Allin, Arts News
Mat Gleason

Since the artist is using a pseudonym, the assumption is that there is a desire to have her work judged free from the context of her famous father, Kurt Cobain, and famous mother, Courtney Love.

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The Andreadis Unibrow Theory of Art

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lowbrow Art, Syncretism, Secret of Kells, The Book of Kells, Gesamtkunstwerk, Avatar Movie, Animation, Popular Culture, Folk Arts and Crafts, Cultural Legacy, Entertainment News
Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.

A perfect example of my definition of high art is the Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells. It uses traditional 2-D techniques and is completely accessible -- what my recent critic might call solidly bourgeois middlebrow.

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"Congratulations" Ausgang's Art and Grammy-Winning Rockers MGMT

Lisa Derrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Williams, Mgmt, Lowbrow Art, Anthony Ausgang, Shag, Mark Ryden, Lowbrow, Pettibone, Ausgang, Style News
Lisa Derrick

Over the past decades, Lowbrow has morphed -- or split, depending on the school of thought -- into Pop Surrealism.

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