Todd Schorr

About

Todd Schorr, born January 9, 1954, in New York City and raised in Oakland, New Jersey, is a prominent American artist associated with the Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism movement. From an early age, he showed a passion for drawing, influenced by cartoons, monster movies, comic books, pulp magazines, and psychedelic posters. A pivotal moment came during a 1970 trip to Europe when, at the Uffizi Gallery in Italy, he conceived the idea of merging cartoon aesthetics with Old Masters techniques. He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) from 1972, initially pursuing painting but directed toward illustration, graduating in 1976. Moving to New York City, he built a successful illustration career, creating album covers for AC/DC, movie posters for George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and Time magazine covers now in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.[1][5]

Pop Surrealism or Lowbrow art, blending cartoonish imagery with hyper-detailed Old Masters techniques