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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]
Von Franco (born May 29, 1952) is a self-taught American artist associated with the Lowbrow art movement and Kustom Kulture.He became involved at an early age in the burgeoning hot rod and Kustom Kulture scene of Southern California.
Arising in the Los Angeles, California, area during the 1960s, Lowbrow was an underground visual art movement that took inspiration from other popular forms of low culture art of the time such as underground comix, punk music, tiki culture, and graffiti. [28]
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]
Lowbrow may refer to: Lowbrow, relating to, or suitable for a person with little taste or intellectual interest, the converse of highbrow Lowbrow, forms of entertainment that are unsophisticated, i.e. not difficult or requiring much intelligence to be understood
The Beatnik Bandit, built by Ed Roth, one of the most famous Kustom car builders. Kustom Kulture is the artworks, vehicles, hairstyles, and fashions of those who have driven and built custom cars and motorcycles in the United States of America from the 1950s through today.
Robert L. Williams, often styled Robt.Williams (born March 2, 1943), is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.Williams was one of the group of artists who produced Zap Comix, along with other underground cartoonists, such as Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson, and Gilbert Shelton.
The company was founded in 2003 by punk legend, Mike Ness of Social Distortion and longtime hot-rodder, Don Nemarnik. Ness states in an interview that he formed Black Kat Kustoms because he "hated everything else" and wanted to design "kustom car, hot rod and chopper t-shirts, so I would have something cool to wear."