Todd Schorr: American Surreal - Influences
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2009
- Todd Schorr has many influences that go into his artwork ranging from boyhood memories to modern day cartoons. In this video he invites us into his large collection of ephemera that he has collected over the years that continue to inspire his work.
Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California's cartoon-based movement, dubbed Pop Surrealism, which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorrs astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by SJMAs Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.
Exhibition runs June 20 through September 16, 2009 at the San Jose Museum of Art
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Not what I'd expect of a museum but entertaining.
Todd Schorr's art is so good it mutated my DNA from a wealthy commercial illustrator and transmogrified me into a broke Low-Brow Artist. "I love what I do and do what I love." Thank you for all your inspirational art Todd! U RAWK!
He's got a good few volumes of The Complete Crumb in that shelf. Wonder why he didn't mention him.
Schorr does that sort of thing far, far better than Williams. I prefer his black and white drawings (Williams', I mean).
museum?
but DOES ANYONE KNOW THE TYPE OF GLASSES HE HAS?
EE-GADS! How dare you! "Far Far Better"? I cringe! That's like saying Luke Sky Walker is Far Far better than Yoda! Robert Williams had to Kick down the gallery doors so Todd could get in. I love them both. However, let us humbly bow to our great Master of Low-Brow, and honor Robert Williams. I know, Todd has surpassed , perhaps , Robert in sheer rendering skill. But, would there be a Todd Schorr with out a Robert Williams - the Father of Low-Brow? Please, let's talk with proper respect of both.
Doesn't mean I haven't got respect for what he's achieved. It's just his paintings all look so tacky to me. But as I said his comics and black and white drawings are wonderful.
AND Williams is responsible for Juxtapoz magazine which has turned into a shitty rag full bland "cute brut"-style illustration bad grafitti art and occasionally a piece about someone worthy. That whole Juxtapoz aesthetic is an insidious cancer on modern illustration IMHO.