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His father, who was an Outsider Art artist himself, taught Markus in his early years how to use these tools to make objects. [1] But while the father built items like motorbikes in as realistic a fashion as possible, the son created his pieces with great, free spirit. [ 2 ]
Outsider artists are artists with little or no contact with the mainstream art world. They are frequently on the margins of society: for example, slaves, prisoners, and the mentally ill . Their creative output is referred to as Outsider Art .
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 ...
Interest in the art of the mentally ill, along with that of children and the makers of "peasant art", developed from the end of the 19th century onward, both by psychiatrists such as Cesare Lombroso, Auguste Marie or Marcel Réjà, and by artists, such as members of "Der Blaue Reiter" group: Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexej von Jawlensky, and others.
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.
Reuben Aaron Miller (July 22, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was a self-taught folk artist, best known for his whirligigs, metal cutouts and drawings. Miller began producing outsider art late in life, placing hundreds of his completed works on his property, as well as selling them on the roadside. His work gained wider recognition in the 1980s, when ...
Willie Young (born April 16, 1942) is a 20th-century American artist.Young is mainly self-taught, and his work has been exhibited alongside other prominent outsider artists, such as Bill Traylor, Nellie Mae Rowe and Thornton Dial.
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