Outsider artist definition of movement
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Outsider Art and its impact on design and bild
What makes Outsider Art so intriguing and irresistible? Is it because art by 'non-artists' brings us closer to answering that elusive question: Why do people man art?
If non-artists from differing backgrounds, neurodivergent people, and people with mental illnesses feel compelled to create art, what does it tell us about innate creativity?
Outsider Art can also help us keep a sober and critical stance toward the mainstream art market, an estimated $68 billion industry.
In this brev, we'll answer all these questions, look at the different types of Outsider artists, and provide examples of outsiders who made remarkable art.
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Art Brut ("raw art"), also known as peasant art or Naïve Art, is a term that encompasses the works of untrained artists who operate outside the boundaries of the mainstream art wor
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Pascal Maissoneuve
I have recently been conducting some further research into the way we display and interpret exhibitions of Outsider Art or work by Marginalised Artists. This research has raised a few questions for me that I thought might be interesting to include in the blog.
I have been reading Lyle Rexer’s ‘How to Look at Outsider Art’, in which the author himself questions what really counts as Outsider Art. The term itself is so broad and covers so many different bases that more often than not we struggle to aptly define it at all. Rexer provides numerous definitions throughout the introduction and first chapter of the book; a chapter entitled ‘Art without Artists’. He quite correctly claims that Outsider Art “unlike the isms… does not refer to the art but to the status of the people who make it.”[1] He adds that the term has “become a catchall phrase for everything that is ostensibly raw, untutored and irrational in art.”[2]
The traditional ‘movement’ of Outsider Art (i
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Outsider art
Art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
"Art brut" redirects here. For the band, see Art Brut (band).
Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.
The term outsider art was coined in 1972 as the title of a book by art criticRoger Cardinal.[1] It is an English equivalent for art brut (French:[aʁbʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created in the 1940s by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture. Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, using as examples psychiatric hospital patients, hermits, and spiritualists.[2][3]
Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category; an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place i