Todd Schorr: American Surreal - Spectre Paintings

Todd Schorr has painted two large format paintings in which he addresses his influences as an artist - one reflects on the cartoon perspective and the other on the horror film perspective. In this video Todd offers insight into how the pieces came about and some of the subject matter in each.

Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California's cartoon-based movement, dubbed Pop Surrealism, which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorrs astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden. The exhibition, curated by SJMAs Senior Scholar and Curator of Collections Susan Landauer, is accompanied by a book published by Last Gasp, San Francisco.

Exhibition runs June 20 through September 16, 2009 at the San Jose Museum of Art

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[davycrocketful]

amazing work..love it..!!

[Elekkay]

cool °o° i love his painting

[AniTabOngtOke]

Disneyland on acid...

[Clematisian]

…….( speechless ).……

[pridefighter93]

legend

[misternylon]

I need a book about this guy so I can stare at the paintings.

[SteevDragon67]

"The spectre of cartoon appeal", is my absolute favorite painting of todd shorr's! I so wish I could see the real one some day. I have a book full of paintings from todd schorr, and the spectre of cartoon appeal features really detailed shots of this masterpiece! I could sit and just look at it for hours! Thank you for posting this!

[Gitsoe]

anyone know what kind of glasses he has?

[MagicMongoloid]

Great videos, thanks for uploadin'!

[topcat4eva]

cool painting, so much detail