Todd Schorr: Imagine Vermeer painting King Kong
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In most ways, Todd Schorr is living every artist's dream: His beastly cartoon paintings are plastered throughout the Internet, where they are studied, discussed and analyzed for meaning on hundreds of art blogs.
Hollywood celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and David Arquette collect his massive canvases. Tycoons, such as Mark Parker, the CEO of Nike, commission his work, while less well-to-do devotees settle for covering their bodies with tattooed replicas of his iconographic images.
So why haven't you heard of him?
Probably because up to now Schorr has never had a major museum exhibition. That's all about to change with the new retrospective of his work at the San Jose Museum of Art, through Sept. 16.
Schorr is a seminal figure in what's known as the lowbrow school of art, an underground movement centered in Los Angeles that draws on an iconography of cartoon characters and baby boomer images from TV and pop culture. Other artists in the movement, which is also known as pop surrealism, include Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman and Mark Ryden.
Since 1994, they have been steadfastly promoted in the pages of Juxtapoz Arts & Culture Magazine, a pop surrealist San Francisco-based publication.
Since his San Jose show opened June 20, aficionados online have been breathless with anticipation about a July 16 party at the museum, at which Schorr himself will join a panel discussion of his work and sign copies of his new book, "Todd Schorr: American Surreal."
Hollywood celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and David Arquette collect his massive canvases. Tycoons, such as Mark Parker, the CEO of Nike, commission his work, while less well-to-do devotees settle for covering their bodies with tattooed replicas of his iconographic images.
So why haven't you heard of him?
Probably because up to now Schorr has never had a major museum exhibition. That's all about to change with the new retrospective of his work at the San Jose Museum of Art, through Sept. 16.
Schorr is a seminal figure in what's known as the lowbrow school of art, an underground movement centered in Los Angeles that draws on an iconography of cartoon characters and baby boomer images from TV and pop culture. Other artists in the movement, which is also known as pop surrealism, include Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman and Mark Ryden.
Since 1994, they have been steadfastly promoted in the pages of Juxtapoz Arts & Culture Magazine, a pop surrealist San Francisco-based publication.
Since his San Jose show opened June 20, aficionados online have been breathless with anticipation about a July 16 party at the museum, at which Schorr himself will join a panel discussion of his work and sign copies of his new book, "Todd Schorr: American Surreal."
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