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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 critic Roger Cardinal . [ 1 ]
This list, of art makers who are considered Outsider artists, includes self-taught, visionary art and naïve art makers known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature such as drawings, paintings, sculptures, and visionary environments. The entries are in alphabetical order by surname.
The Flint Grotto is usually described as "outsider art", [10] [4] and it was featured in the Spring 2017 edition of Raw Vision, the British journal dedicated to the form. [11] The art historian Alexandra Loske describes the statues as "sturdy figures rightly likened to outsider art or Arte Povera. They are raw, unconventional and strangely ...
So they turned to art, and as people who didn't have formal training, found unique ways to express themselves. Kovak chose building a planetarium. Others have created sculpture gardens, grottoes ...
The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is an art museum located in Baltimore, Maryland's Federal Hill neighborhood at 800 Key Highway.The museum specializes in the preservation and display of outsider art (also known as "intuitive art," "raw art," or "art brut").
James Hampton (April 8, 1909 – November 4, 1964) was an American outsider artist.Hampton worked as a janitor and secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials, known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
The definition of the term, and its "borders" with neighbouring terms such as folk art and outsider art, has been a matter of some controversy. Naïve art is a term usually used for the forms of fine art, such as paintings and sculptures, made by a self-taught artist, while objects with a practical use come under folk art.
The new exhibition comes one year after Mulligan's passing. There will be drawings on paper, acrylic paintings, and unreleased voice recordings.