AngelaSasser
Illustrater, Leather Crafter • http://www.angelicshades.com
Illustrater, Leather Crafter • http://www.angelicshades.com
I’m a watercolor artist and illustrator, concentrating mainly on colorful, detailed fantasy art. I combine my love of fairy tales and myth with a playful fusion of art nouveau style, and inspirations from Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. https://www.facebook.com/theartofmeredithdillman
Dec 8thLowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other subcultures. Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor - sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment. The single most common tactic that Lowbrow artists employ is to poke fun at convention. They know the "rules" of art, and consciously choose not to abide by them. If the test of time for legitimacy (as an artistic movement) means that Lowbrow speaks/spoke, in visual terms, to the millions of us who share a common cultural, symbolic language - albeit a "lower" or "middle" class, media-driven language - then, yes, Lowbrow is here to stay. Anthropologists will probably study Lowbrow in the future, to attempt to figure out late 20th and early 21st century U.S. societal influences.
May 18th, 2012