Capstone Proposal / Peralta

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Over 100 years ago , an art movement had begun. Starting with Winsor McCay, the creator of the first full-page comics ‘Rarebit Fiend’ and ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’ (these were some of the first psychedelic graphics). Shortly after that we saw Marcel Duchamp paint a mustache and beard on a reproduction of the Mona Lisa, to question and subvert the fine art world.
Here we are in the beginning of the 21st century Lowbrow art, which has been influencing design, film, fashion ,advertising, music and television for at least the last half century, is barely recognized as a high art form. Ultimately, some artists eventually find themselves among the highly accepted artists such as the likes of Picasso, Miro, Duchamp and Cezanne, but not without battling their way past the high priests who hesitate to show their work.
Lowbrow ( a term coined by Robert Williams in the mid 1960s ) art is varied and complex. It is a combination of pop-surrealism, cartoons, narrative, pervasive, kustom kulture, retro illustrative, expressionist and psychedelic punk, just to give you some idea of the enormous scope. Cartoon art, however, would be the single most powerful influence. Cartoon art seems to shape pop-surrealistic art both stylistically and philosophically, especially since its insurrection in the 1960s with underground comics and psychedelic posters.
My intention with this three page website is to introduce the viewer to a brief history of “Lowbrow” art, a comprehensive timeline as an info graphic and a partially animated mash up several wonderful pieces of art.

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