Gary Baseman, being a pervasive artist means staying true to a particular message and aesthetic no matter the medium employed.
Gary Baseman (born 1960) is a contemporary artist who works in various creative fields, including illustration, fine art, toy design, and animation.
He is the creator of the Emmy-winning ABC/Disney cartoon series, Teacher’s Pet, and the artistic designer of Cranium, a popular board game.
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Baseman’s aesthetic combines iconic pop art images, pre- and post-war vintage motifs, cross-cultural mythology and literary and psychological archetypes.
He is noted for his playful, devious and cleverly named creatures, which recur throughout his body of work.
Baseman’s art is frequently associated with the lowbrow pop movement, also known as pop surrealism.
Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other subcultures. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism.
Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor - sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment.
Baseman cites Warner Bros. cartoons, MAD Magazine, and Disneyland as early sources of inspiration. He also cites Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, and the illustrator William Joyce as contemporaries.
He is the creator of the Emmy-winning ABC/Disney cartoon series, Teacher’s Pet, and the artistic designer of Cranium, a popular board game.
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Baseman’s aesthetic combines iconic pop art images, pre- and post-war vintage motifs, cross-cultural mythology and literary and psychological archetypes. He is noted for his playful, devious and cleverly named creatures, which recur throughout his body of work.
Baseman’s art is frequently associated with the lowbrow pop movement, also known as pop surrealism.
Lowbrow, or lowbrow art, describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California, area in the late 1970s. Lowbrow is a widespread populist art movement with origins in the underground comix world, punk music, hot-rod street culture, and other subcultures. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism.
Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor - sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment.
Baseman cites Warner Bros. cartoons, MAD Magazine, and Disneyland as early sources of inspiration. He also cites Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, and the illustrator William Joyce as contemporaries.
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