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Underground art can include art created both legally and illegally, organized or unauthorized, and can essentially exist in any form. A homeless poem found on an transit advertising display on the Long Island Rail Road. Visionary Art is often considered a form of underground art because of it popularity outside conventional art channels.
The Velvet Underground was an influential underground music act in the late 1960s. Underground music is music with practices perceived as outside, or somehow opposed to, mainstream popular music culture. Underground styles lack the commercial success of popular music movements, and may involve the use of avant-garde or abrasive approaches ...
Underground hip-hop (also commonly known as indie hip-hop or underground rap) is an umbrella term for hip hop music that is outside the general commercial canon. [1] It is typically associated with independent artists, signed to independent labels or no label at all.
The 1960s and 1970s underground cultural movements had some connections to the Beat Generation, which had, in turn, been inspired by the French philosophers, artists, and poets of the Existentialist movement, which gathered around Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus in Paris during the years that followed the aftermath of World War II.
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] It is also often known by the name pop surrealism. [3]
Tom Otterness (born 1952) is an American sculptor who is one of America's most prolific public artists. [1] Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City [2] and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station.
Underground cartoonists (151 P) Pages in category "Underground artists" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
From the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until 1932, the historical Russian avant-garde flourished and strove to appeal to the proletariat.However, in 1932 Joseph Stalin's government took control of the arts with the 1932 decree of the Bolshevik Central Committee "On the Restructuring of Literary-Artistic Organizations", which put all artists' unions under the control of the Communist ...