The movement started as "Lowbrow", in other words, as a low level art. This concept entailed that it was not accepted by famous galleries or the official art media. It wasn't considered as a proper art by many.
Camille Rose García
However, it has become more popular in just a few years, mostly due to the spread of web pages favouring this movement, as well as publications and specialized galleries.
Pop Surrealism, which was born from an alternative calling, expresses itself with media which aspire the democratisation of art, such as illustration, quality reproductions and action figures of the author.
Femke Hiemstra
The characteristics of the Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism movement are so heterogeneous as the artists who join it.
It is easier if we focus on detailing the sources which inspire these authors:
Besides Surrealistic and Pop art, we have video games, comics, cartoons, Japanese manga, science fiction, curiosity, the circus, type B films, graffiti, which result in a multicolored art which combines childish elements with the sinister side of life, humour with terror.
Nathan Jurevicius
