As a kid growing up in the Midwest my exposure lowbrow and pop surrealism was through a subscription to Juxtapoz. I fell in love with the strange and grotesque imagery but marveled at how incredibly technical the art was too. It shaped my whole style as a future artist myself.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Juxtapoz was my main introduction as well, apart from a vinyl compilation record my dad had that had Rat Fink-like character on the cover. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the Art history class. I now realize I need to go back to school.

@FrankCurkovic

2 ай бұрын

Ha! You are very welcome! Thanks for taking time to comment. Appreciated.

Fantastic video with a few glaring omissions, Keith Weesner, Von Franco, Coop, Sonny DePalma to name a few. Thanks for sharing with us.

@FrankCurkovic

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I will check them out. The focus was more on how lowbrow art led to Pop Surrealism, but I feel a bit guilty now for leaving out Coop!

Best video on KZread covering pop surrealism. Thanks for all this knowledge! Studying pop surrealism to improve my own artwork.

@FrankCurkovic

2 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Thanks for taking the time to write. Much appreciated.

I hadn't heard of Hi-Fructose and just subscribed! I randomly came across a documentary of Robert Williams a few years ago and have been a huge fan of Juxtapose ever since. You did an excellent job of weaving together the styles and artists and presented it clearly. That's not easy.

@FrankCurkovic

16 күн бұрын

Thanks so much!

What a wonderful and very informative short video, Frank. I really love this artistic movement so much. Thanks for allowing me to see its origins, and the fantastically inspired pioneers of the movement. I wish you rainbows.

@FrankCurkovic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ray! I am glad you enjoyed it and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Much appreciated.

I was a huge fan of this type of art starting in my childhood, but I didn't know any of this history or context. Thanks for making this!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Really enjoyed this video! Jeff Soto and Ron English are some of my fav artist.

@FrankCurkovic

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to comment.

I loved this video. Thank you so much for posting.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time to comment.

This is amazing!! Great work here.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

absolutely amazing video! just discovered this style of art and I'm now obsessed! Thank you for the crash course 😃

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. Initially, I myself wasn't a fan but it began growing on me, thus the video. Thanks again.

@telewah3986

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic absolutely no worries! Keep up the great work 🙂

This is such a good video! I was recently introduced to pop surrealism and as an artist myself I find it incredibly inspiring and fascinating. This really gave me a great idea of the background behind it! Thanks for being awesome!! 😁

@FrankCurkovic

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad! Thanks for taking the time to write. Very kind of you.

Thanks for making this!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for the comment!

I LOVE this video...I never knew! What a great study of some truly great and less documented art. Thank you so much for the enlightenment!!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

This is a very well made, informative video, just earned a sub 👍

@FrankCurkovic

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the comment and sub! Much appreciated.

Thank you for such great content!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

So Very VERY GOOD Thank you For posting This !

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Great video, thanks your share

@FrankCurkovic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for visiting!

How doesn't this have more views ?? Love the video ❤

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. The algorithm is a tough cookie to crack at times. Thank you for taking time to write comments. Much appreciated.

wonderful video, thank you

@FrankCurkovic

7 ай бұрын

Thank you too for taking the time to comment!

Really interesting video, thanks!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure! I would love to make a unit on Pop Surrealism. More suited to HS though.

thank you for making this video!! ive fallen in love with rat fink and roth's grotesque attention to detail, and im glad to have stumbled upon someone to talk about him!!! please make a video about him kustom culture if you, too, find it interesting. also, this reminds me a lot of spike n mike animation festivals. a lot of grotesque, surreal, satirical, and dark animations... which reminded me of this art form

@FrankCurkovic

10 ай бұрын

Yes, good idea! Thanks for taking the time to comment. It is appreciated.

8:57 I'm in love. Thank you for introducing the beautiful art from this artist

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Glad you enjoy it!

You put words to all of my favorite works that I never had the ability to describe.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Cool. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Well done video. Thank you much.

@FrankCurkovic

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to comment.

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting!

I first encountered the work created by Robert Williams in hot rod magazines which featured ads for T-shirts and other items by Ed Roth. I also remember the art of Spain Rodriguez and the 1960s outlaw motorcycle art of David Mann. The art of Peter Max, The Fool, and Rick Griffin were some of my favorite eye candies back in the 1960s. Moreover, Victor Moscoso's blue and orange imagery provided the definitive aspect of 1960s Psychedelia. Thanks, Frank Curkovic.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

YOU ARE VERY WELCOME! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment!

I like this video. I always look around for different artists online. I like all of this work. I'm also an artist, and I enjoy everything that's different. My music productions fall into the different category as well. Thank you for sharing your video.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Thank you for taking the time to comment!

thank you so much it was really helpful for me to keep going and keep painting and sketching 😍 just be myself 😊thankful for you

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad! Keep it up!

Thank you so much for this video! I found various paintings from Anthony Ausgang and Rober Williams in my Dads basement. Truly a unique style - very nice to have the background!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome! Wow, what a find in the basement! Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Nice vid! Make more like this please! Subscribed

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub! I am open to suggestions for future videos.

Outstanding!!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Excellent, Thank you!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Great video. I would like to see a video focus more in depth on the work of each individual artist. Or maybe a few at a time that share similarities. I enjoyed this very much. Thanks

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I hope to do something like that, but it appears I do not enough days in the week : ( Thanks for watching and commenting!

@nicodemuschronos962

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic I know what you mean.

Thank you!

@FrankCurkovic

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Very interesting!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

I think so too! Thanks for watching!

Beautiful 😍

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

great video-I think Jana Brike should get a mention as well-She has almost no videos showcasing her remarkable work

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I was unfamiliar with that artists and checkered her out. Thanks for the tip!

Comprehensive! I might have mentioned Kaws as he is one of the most successful

@FrankCurkovic

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

Great video. Nothin low bout the skill of Robert crumb and big daddy Roth!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

You got that right!

@semantixsigns6657

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic I’ve only watched half way through this video. I’m savouring (by saving) the other half for a comfy chair coming soon!

Very very good

@FrankCurkovic

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to comment! Much appreciated.

@Fetalposse

2 ай бұрын

​@@FrankCurkovicwho made the artwork at 2:41?

@FrankCurkovic

Ай бұрын

That is Robert Williams, which is also the cover of GnR's "Appetite for Destruction" album.

Could you pretty please do a 3 hours version of this beautiful video? I thought oil painting was so near to die for good...Thanks for proving me I was wrong. CHEERS From Mexico City !!!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

3 hours?! Gosh...that would be epic. Not sure I have time for that : )

It's worth pointing out the term "Lowbrow" was first used when the book of Robert Williams took hold: "The Lowbrow Art Of Robert Williams."

@FrankCurkovic

3 ай бұрын

Good piece of trivia! Thanks for the comment.

I'm surprised you didn't cover Christian Rex Van Minnen

@FrankCurkovic

7 ай бұрын

Yes, he could have fit in as well!

Margaret Keane would have been a good addition... as would the genre of black velvet paintings..

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you are right. I should have included her.

Can you do a similar gamut of artists that do pop surrealistic style in animation?

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Oh gosh, that would take me a while to research!

Don’t forget Greg Simkins.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I should have included him.

Hannah Yata...best of them all

@FrankCurkovic

6 ай бұрын

I'll check her out. Thanks!

Peter Saul was doing this sort of work in the late 1950s and 160s and he is still at it.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Great and thanks for directing me to a new artist!

@williamfarr8807

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic Checkout Red Grooms, Jim Nutt, Hairy Who, and the Chicago imagists all from the 1960s

Would Junko Mizuno be considered as being one of the Lowbrow artists?

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

A Manga style, but very possible. I like her stuff.

i really dislike most pop surrealist art but this is still an excellent video

@FrankCurkovic

2 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

💙

@FrankCurkovic

9 ай бұрын

Thanks!

So not my thing, but I can appreciate the background.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Funny you say that. At first, I wasn't a fan of pop surrealism as well. It grew on me.

I would say "classic cartoon style" or something like that. That seems to be the thing that connects them all. Edit:. I don't really think surrealism is too much different from 20th century cartoonism. IMO.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Or vice versa? ; )

@thingfish000

Жыл бұрын

In a word, weird. In two words, very weird.

Sean Aaberg should be mentioned in this video.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Yes...but I wanted to focus more on fine artists, rather than illustrators etc. Controversial statement, I know. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

you forgot Greg Simkins

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Yes, agreed. Not sure why I didn't include him. My bad.

No love for Alex pardee??? You even showed some of his work?? GREAT VIDEO THO!!!!!

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Alex Pardee is great. Can't put everyone in due to time. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

@follc1991

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic just busting balls, lol thanks for introducing me to new artists. Like I said GREAT VIDEO! Loved it. For sure you got your self a new subscriber

No mention of hieronymous bosch…maybe next time, or bruegel. Both primary to surrealism…

@FrankCurkovic

9 ай бұрын

Indeed...Bosch the great grandfather to pop surrealism. Decided to leave out to reduce video length. Perhaps I shouldn't have?

Todd schore Victor castillo Alex Grew Anthony auscin Marion Peck Haoti Natori Mark Ryten Camille Rose Garcia Tara Mcphirsen Joe Cole Jeff Soto Ron English JOSH Agel Gary Bassen Barry Miggy Tim Biscot Aurorey Makasaki

@FrankCurkovic

3 ай бұрын

A few typos, but I take this is the list of artists you like?

Manga. Anime. As influence.

@FrankCurkovic

2 жыл бұрын

That is correct.

Damn never realized there were no significant black artist in this genre and movement, or at least no one cares enough to mention them.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. There is the whole Afro-Surrealist movement: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Surrealism#:~:text=Notable%20practitioners%20and%20inspirations%20of,Delany%2C%20and%20Romare%20Bearden.

@apollyon3034

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic I'm sure you have no malice in this comment but it comes across to me, as if there is no place is surrealism for black artists. That there would need to be a whole separate genre for them, when truly afro-surrealism expresses all that surrealism does but through a black lense and while highlighting black issues. Black people exist within surrealism, creating art without a focus on or reference to their race. It's a great video don't get me wrong, just a lil disheartening to think my art would never be featured in a video like this because it would be relegated to a totally different genre because I'm black.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

@@apollyon3034 Gosh...not my intent at all. In my video, I only focused historically as was interested in the topic myself, without knowing too much about it at first. Do you have certain specific artists to share in case people read these comments or if I decide to make a follow up video?

@apollyon3034

Жыл бұрын

@@FrankCurkovic sorry if I didn't explain myself well. I really meant more the comment (on afro-surrealism) than the video. I think you made an amazing video that doesn't need to be adjusted. I don't think you did anything wrong, I'm sure that none of your research lead you to any black artists without also relating the work to it's own sub genre. My favorite surrealist artist is David Alabo. While he does create afro-surrealism he doesn't plenty of non race-based art (depending on how you read it). I want to be clear that I think you made and excellent video and I don't think it was a reflection of your abilities that there was a lack of black artist and is more due to underrepresentation in media.

LowBrow art??

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Indeed

This kind of art is well executed but doesn't keep my interest for some reason. I think I am tired of pop culture after binging on TV in the 80s and 90s and don't want to see references to it anymore. But I can't believe I never knew Robert Williams. That guy can draw, eh.

@FrankCurkovic

Жыл бұрын

Tired of pop culture? Good point. I get it. The pendulum always swings in both directions. Thanks for the comment.

Not low brow art bruh . . . Americana.

@FrankCurkovic

8 ай бұрын

not sure i'd agree with that.

Honestly, I would compare pop surrealism with the devil trying to draw cartoons. Most artworks done by these artists are just _wrong_ and feel vulgar and just not cool. They don't pass the vibe check. Take Mark Ryden for example, who consistently paints literal naked children in his paintings. Nobody ever talks about that ever or criticizes it. Pop surrealism is perverted, misguided, and low moral, and it's a shame, because as a cubist who uses expressionism, I see the charm that could've been being constantly tarnished by artists whose inappropriate fetishes manifested into their art.

@FrankCurkovic

17 күн бұрын

Hmm...I'm not sure what the "vibe check" means and haven't really considered your thoughts before. I get, understand your views and opinions and welcome them. Why not? To each their own. However, the term low-brow did refer to fringe art, hence the title. One essay by Carlo McCormick has a quote that sums of Ryden pretty well: "Mark Ryden does not celebrate evil, even it's its most campy denatured form. Quite to the contrary, his art-making can be seen as an elaborate charade of avoidance towards life's grimmer realities. His is an utterly pure infantilistic escapism." (source: www.markryden.com/at-play-in-the-slaughterhouse-of-american-pop#:~:text=Mark%20Ryden%20does%20not%20celebrate,an%20utterly%20pure%20infantilistic%20escapism.) I do like your line "the devil trying to draw cartoons." Thanks for sharing your thoughts and taking the time to comment.