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Crash Course: 7 Things You Need to Know About Lowbrow Artist Anthony Ausgang
For two and a half decades, Trinidad and Tobago-born Anthony Ausgang has been spitting in the face of the art establishment. This year, besides his paintings, personalized leather jackets and toy designs, Ausgang found time to design the cover for the keenly anticipated Congratulations, the sophomore album by MGMT that drops today. Indeed, this guy deserves a round--of applause or bourbons--for the work he
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1. MGMT isn
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2. Ausgang
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3. Ausgang traded his first painting for a bag of weed:
In Los Angeles in 1990, art dealer John Poncha acquired an Ausgang original for the lowbrow price of a sack of Mexican shake at the 01 Gallery. Since then, the likes of Perry Ferrel of Jane
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4. Lowbrow is actually a big deal:
A.k.a. "Pop Surrealism," this movement includes several other artists who you
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5. Ausgang has become permanently iconic:
With characters that reflect the hey-day of Kustom Kulture in Southern California, Ausgang
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6. Itchy and Scratchy, anyone?
No one
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7. Queens of the Stone Age are fans:
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