Previewed is a look into the cover art from MGMT’s upcoming album release “Congratulations,” due out in stores
April 13th, 2010. The art was done by famed surrealist cartoonist Anthony Ausgang, interviewed below courtesy
of Daniel Lahoda from JetSetGraffiti.
You are one of the original “Lowbrow” guys and have watched the whole arc of this movement. What are your
thoughts on how the scene has evolved?
Lowbrow Art was originally based on a wide assortment of aesthetic insurgencies, like the surf and hotrod subculture. Many of those cultural influences are now outdated and have been replaced by more recent stimulations. For example, the major influence that Saturday morning cartoons had on Lowbrow has been replaced by the new youth culture’s video and computer games. There were also certain orphaned subcultures that were initially attracted to Lowbrow as a good place to enter the Fine Art world. As time passed some of these subcultures, like Graffiti, moved away from the Lowbrow and became their own art movements.
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