Contemporary surreal, visionary and pop surreal art
Mystical and Occult
Lowbrow art, or pop surrealism, is a visual art movement that arose in Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Its cultural roots are inspired by underground comics, punk music, tiki culture, and hot-rod cultures of the street. The terms lowbrow and pop surrealism are used interchangeably. Lowbrow is often humorous, sarcastic, or ironic.
Most lowbrow artworks are paintings, but there are also toys, digital art, sculpture, and collage.
Find contemporary pop-surrealist and lowbrow artists working today.
When most people think about Salvador Dalí, the first thing that comes to mind is likely his mind-bending work as one of the vanguards of surrealism—melting clocks, spindly-limbed monsters, bizarre tableaus that tread the line between dreamscape and nightmare… either that or his trademark mustache. However, Dalí’s oeuvre is not simply limited to oil paintings; […]
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Waone is an Artist / Muralist from Kyiv, Ukraine. ARTIST STATEMENT The main goal of my art is to find out who am I and explore the outside world.Viewing through the lens of the creative process gives me the possibilityto shift the focus away from the vanity of common life and tap into stranger invisible world, […]
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About Boris Indrikov Boris Indrikov was born in Leningrad in 1967 and lives and works in Moscow. From 1991 to 1997 he was a book designer and worked as an illustrator for the popular science magazine “Chemistry and Life”. He has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and The member […]
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One of the world’s greatest paintings in virtual reality. Fly through The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch on the back of a fish. BOSCH VR is available for Android and iPhone smartphones (links to Stores) as an app. Made ‘for Hieronymus’ by BDH to celebrate 500 years of the visionary genius. Published in […]
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Here is a short list of five surrealist things I am thinking about this week. 1. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry Through renowned father of the midnight movies Alejandro Jodorowsky’s intensely personal lens, Endless Poetry tells the story of his years spent as an aspiring poet in Chile in the 1940’s. Against the wishes of his […]
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