What am i missing?

[ivania]

Alright.
 i've been often thinking about this Lowbrow Art thing, and i've recently been visiting galleries in the Los Angeles area that showcase this type of artwork, I wont say I'm deeply delved into the world of art, but as an illustrator i'm starting to get out there and learn my peers.
the more and more that i go out to events like Artwalk LA and openings around the SFV and Los Angeles, the more I feel like i'm being jipped.
I dig the LowBrow movement and am excited to see fresh crops coming out of Los Angeles, but I guess i'm tired of seeing skulls and flowers and tigers and things all over the walls.
 its not really about the content anymore as it is about the actual pictorial presentation.
i'm talking about paintings with youuuung looking women, often sexed up and playing/hanging out with bunnies, and lolly pops. I'm not really getting it.  There is a fantastically gothic sexy ingredient to it that i cant quite point my finger on.
I'd like to see some new images!
any thoughts on this or the lowbrow movement  are welcome! ]

[James Mobius]

You're not missing anything, you just don't like what you see.

[Lawn Walker]

It's funny you mention this...when I first started noticing lowbrow (I was on the hunt for all things cute after just having a baby and came across kidrobot) I swore I would never paint young girls with bunnies...can't saw that about the candy because I always loved vintage candy ads and the candyland game. I love Mark Ryden's stuff, but didn't want to go there. Recent though, it's all I can paint. I think the girls represent me and what I'm going through right now (been diagnosed with a c-toma tumor in my head and just found out my husband's a drug addict...knew he was hiding something). Not sure why I'm writing this here, other then I've been holding it all in and I don't know... Anyway, I think for me the girls represent a lose of girlie innocents and a struggle with more mature, even painful, issues...though I am a girl, so not sure what they represent for a guy who paints them. Ultimately I think they are a phase, like the Impressionist with their outdoor picnic scenes. Lowbrow and pop surrealism seem to be pulling more from other works in the same genre, then the commercial images they use to, and I think this is a natural progression...as I said, like the impressionist...creatives feeding off creatives. So today it might be girls with lollipops and bunnies, and tomorrow it might be old men stuck on the crappy playing with yo-yo's.