Outsider Art

talk about  

artist to look at Carlo Zinelli

1.      look at  Carlo Zinelli.

2.      look at Adolf Wolfli,

3.        look at Carl Jung  ,one of the founding fathers of modern psychology.

Is he an Outsider Artist? Were we Is he an Outsider Artist?

What is the definition of an outsider artist ,

4.      American art critic called Jerry Saltz  says that

American art critic says that  -Caravaggio was homeless, incarcerated, and insane.

And 90% of the artists I’ve ever met are kind of a little insane.

5.      It was in the 19405 that a French artist called Jean Dubuffet

first brought self—taught art out of the asylums, and into the galleries

Jean Dubuffet – was the first brought self—taught art out of the asylums, and into the galleries

Dubuffet christened it “Art Brut”, a legacy of his days

in the wine trade, where ‘bmt’ means raw or unsugared

He was interested in the lack of sophistication of the work,

which he saw as its purity He was interested in the lack of sophistication of the work,

which he saw as its purity. For him, a spontaneous outpouring

from the wellspring of creativity was the mark of TRUE art .

 look at Gugging is famous for its House of Artis

Frank Maresca says  – Everyone is desperately trying to put Outsider Art into a nice, neat little box.

And it doesn’t really fit in

because it’s something that happened independently.

It’s something that owes nothing to art history.

When you owe nothing to art history, you really have a problem .

 Talk about – Joe Coleman’s work

he is now banned from showing at the Outsider Art Fair

on account of being too successful. In fact, such is his popularity that, in a peculiar twist,

What does this tell us?

Perhaps it suggests we fetishize these artists we prefer them

to be poor and struggling.

Use this as a reference

imagine…, Turning the Art World Inside Out, 22:35 19/11/2013, BBC1 London, 70 mins. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/060AFE7A?bcast=103816156 (Accessed 06 Apr 2022)

 use this  as a reference

Art brut

Roger Cardinal

https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T004326

Bibliography

L’Art brut, 1–9 (Paris, 1964–73), 10– (Lausanne, 1977–)

J. Dubuffet: Asphyxiante culture (Paris, 1968)

H. Raynal: ‘Un Art premier’, Critique, 258 (1968), pp. 965–83

R. Cardinal: Outsider Art (London, 1972)

J. Dubuffet: L’Homme du commun à l’ouvrage (Paris, 1973)

C. Lascault: ‘La Pensée sauvage en acte’, L’Herne, 22 (1973), pp. 218–33

H. Raynal: ‘Le Personnage infini’, L’Herne, 22 (1973), pp. 234–59

M. Thévoz: L’Art brut (Geneva 1975; Eng. trans., 1976)

G. Presler: L’Art brut: Kunst zwischen Genialität und Wahnsinn (Cologne, 1981)

G. Schreiner, ed.: European Outsiders (New York, 1986)

C. Delacampagne: Outsiders: Fous, naïfs et voyants dans la peinture moderne (1880–1960) (Paris, 1989)

W. Morgenthaler: Madness and Art: The Life and Works of Adolf Wölfli (London, 1992)

A. S. Weiss: Shattered Forms, Art brut, Phantasms, Modernism (Albany, 1992)

N. Wacher: Peinture à partir du matériel brut et le rôle de la technique dans la création d’art (Paris, 1993)

Bouabré, Frédéric Brulyunlocked

(b Zéprégühe, Nov 11, 1923).

Simon Njami

https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T096499

Published online: 21 February 2000

Use the Bibliography

Bibliography

Magiciens de la Terre (exh. cat. by H. Martin and others, Paris, Pompidou, 1989), pp. 108–9

J.-L. Pivin and P. Martin: ‘Le Soleil Jaune’, Revue noire, 2 (1991), pp. 14–15

‘Frédéric Bruly Bouabré’, Africa Now (exh. cat., Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Cent. Atlantic. A. Mod.; Groningen, Groniger Mus.; Mexico City, Cent. Cult. A. Contemp.; 1991-2), pp. 179–83

Worlds Envisioned: Alghiero e Boetti and Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (exh. cat. by L. Cooke and A. Magnin, New York, Dia Cent. A., 1994)

R. F. Thompson: ‘Alghiero e Boetti and Frédéric Bouabré, Dia Center for the Arts’, Artforum, 33 (1995), pp. 86–7

Traylor, Bill unlocked

(b Benton, AL, 1854; d Montgomery, AL, 1949).

James Smalls

https://doi.org/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2086146

Published online: 24 February 2010 

Use the Bibliography F. Maresca and R. Ricco: Bill Traylor: His Art and Life (New York, 1991)

J. Helfenstein and R. Kurzmeyer: Deep Blues: Bill Traylor 1854–1949 (New Haven and London, 1999)

A. J. Petullo: Self-taught and Outsider Art (Urbana, 2001) 

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