Viewed as a signature movement of artists immersed in subversive or
Low Brow culture, Street Art is increasingly making its way into fine art practice.
Not exact matches
Pop
culture critics, who tend to be attracted to the thing that's most popular, mostly ignore the most popular shows on TV, which are
lower -
brow fare crafted to get high ratings.
Image © Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society Written for eHarmony by Ben Clover Each August Edinburgh is home to the world's largest arts festival, showcasing everything from the highest of high
culture to the
lowest of the
low -
brow.
Uniting
low -
brow with high
culture, outmoded with new production, and seductive color with awkward tweets, greg.org's technique resembles that of sampling, a widely appealing creative tool in the 1980s and 1990s.
Influenced by the soulful sounds of Billy Stewart, the kitschy aesthetic of John Waters, and the provocative artifice of drag
culture, Gaignard uses
low -
brow pop sensibilities to craft dynamic visual narratives.
Beginning with his paintings and collages from the 1980s — while he was in the punk rock band Culturcide — Flood has been a raucous cultural critic, attacking one and all:
low -
brow and high
culture.
They presented the modern world of popular
culture with whatever materials they though appropriate, no matter how
low -
brow or trivial.
The differences between pop and underground
culture, between high and
low brow, became more obscured than ever before, causing not only confusion, but also a hearth for new creative practices.