Don Wilkinson
David Guadalupe proudly acknowledges a pantheon of influences from the visual art world. Among them are familiar names: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello.
But the South Coast painter is not a scholar of the greatest and most prolific artists of the Renaissance. But the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were a tremendous inspiration.
Back in 1990, curators Kirk Varnedoe and Adam Gopnik mounted “High & Low / Modern Art and Popular Culture,” a traveling exhibition which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before traveling to Chicago and Los Angeles.
The premise of “High and Low” was a provocative and eye-opening exploration of the intersection between what some, with an air of elitism, might refer to as highbrow and lowbrow culture.
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