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Pop Surreal, Cartoon-Tainted Abstract Surrealism Amy Sol (born 1981) [ 1 ] is an American artist of Korean ancestry, who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada . [ 2 ] She is a member in good standing of a loose knit community of artists practicing Pop Surreal , Lowbrow , or, as Robert Williams defines it, "cartoon-tainted abstract surrealism."
Peck became known for her work in pop surrealism and has exhibited her work in Paris, Rome, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. She is represented by the Dorothy Circus Gallery. [4] Her work has been featured in album covers, such as Waking the Mystics (2006) by Portland art rock group, Sophe Lux.
Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, is an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California area in the late 1960s. [1] It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix , punk music , tiki culture , graffiti , and hot-rod cultures of the street. [ 2 ]
Yayoi Kusama was born on 22 March 1929 in Matsumoto, Nagano. [11] Born into a family of merchants who owned a plant nursery and seed farm, [12] Kusama began drawing pictures of pumpkins in elementary school and created artwork she saw from hallucinations, works of which would later define her career. [9]
Her edited anthology Surrealist Women demonstrated the breadth of women's contribution to surrealism. Ginka Steinwachs (born 1942), German scholar and writer. Her doctoral thesis on André Breton was published as Mythologie des Surrealismus. Blanca Varela (1926–2009), Peruvian poet.
Screaming faces, restless hands, and soul-like figures struggling to escape their vessels—these are the striking elements that first draw attention to Jackson Shaner's art. He is a ceramic ...
Todd Schorr. Todd Schorr (born January 9, 1954) is an American artist and member of the "Lowbrow", or pop surrealism, art movement.Combining a cartoon influenced visual vocabulary with a highly polished technical ability, based on the exacting painting methods of the Old Masters, Schorr weaves intricate narratives that are often biting yet humorous in their commentary on the human condition.
Mark Ryden (born January 20, 1963) is an American painter who is considered to be part of the Lowbrow (or pop surrealist) art movement. [1] He was dubbed "the god-father of pop surrealism" by Interview magazine. [2] In 2015, Artnet named Ryden and his wife, painter Marion Peck, the king and queen of Pop Surrealism. [3]