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3 unusual facts about Lowbrow


Lowbrow

Danger: Low Brow, a radio comedy show from Melbourne aired from 1985 to 1991

Middlebrow, describes both a certain type of easily accessible art, often literature, as well as the population that uses art to acquire culture and class that is usually unattainable

Low culture, a derogatory term for some forms of popular culture


Chueh

Luke Chueh (born 1973), artist in lowbrow or pop surrealism art movement

Dan Spitz

Paul Reed Smith has created a special "Spitz" head stock (a first for PRS) and a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rendering was painted on this new guitar by tattoo artist and lowbrow painter JR Linton.

Grenadine Records

Grenadine Records has released albums in both English and French by bands including the Dears, Nightwood, Shane Watt, the Frenetics, Tricky Woo, Blurtonia, Shy Child, Alexis O'Hara, the American Devices, Melon Galia, music for mapmakers, LowBrow, Starvin Hungry, Eux Autres and Les Sequelles.

Jérôme Catz

In 2011, Jérôme Catz is curating the exhibition Les Enfants Terribles, which brings together twelve of the most important artists in the Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist movements from around the world, featuring Todd Schorr, Robert Williams, Ray Caesar, Jeff Soto, Nicolas Thomas, Caia Koopman, Victor Castillo, Reg Mombassa, Odö, Naoto Hattori, Joe Sorren and Robert Crumb.


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