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Switzerland is not particularly known for its art, but one of the most recognizable art styles in Switzerland is called naïve art...
"Boy on the Rocks" art print by Henri Rousseau captures a young boy in traditional attire seated atop rugged rocks. This primitivism-style portrait features the boy in a black outfit with striped stockings against a serene sky. Perfect for lovers of naive painting, this poster emphasizes simplicity and innocence. Ideal for adding a touch of classic art to any space.
Early today I gave a lecture on the early, European roots of outsider art. It was part of the Center for the Visual Arts lunchtime lecture series. It is important to understand the 19th century roots of the movement before it evolved into art brut and later outsider art These roots centered around the work of Drs. Hans Prinzhorn and Walter Morgenthaler. These psychiatrists were contemporaries and both explored the use of the visual arts combined with psychotherapy to help the insane patients they treated in sanitariums. They were the fathers of what we now refer to as art therapy. Morgenthaler wrote the textbook for Psychiatric Nursing that is still in use today. He also developed the Rorschach Technique but his contribution to art history was the 1921 publication Madness and Art: The Life Works of Adolf Wolfli. Besides being an MD, he was also an art historian. Morgenthaler encouraged and documented Wolfli's artistic body of work. Raw Vision put it like this "Dr Walter Morgenthaler published the first study of a single psychiatric patient's work, Adolf Wölfli, a patient at his Swiss asylum. Wölfli worked for thirty years in a small cell at the Waldau Asylum, producing hundreds of huge drawings which he bound in vast tomes accompanied by a dense script recounting his exploits and calculations, a depiction of a whole alternative reality from his tragic life". An awesome retrospective and virtual exhibition documenting the relationship between Morgenthaler and Wolfli can be found here. I encourage you to check it out. Wölfli was born in Bern. He was abused both physically and sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of 10. He thereafter grew up in a series of state-run foster homes. He worked as a farm labourer and briefly joined the army, but was later convicted of attempted child molestation, for Bern, Switzerland, a psychiatric hospital where he spent the rest of his adult life. He was very disturbed and sometimes violent on admission, leading to him being kept in isolation for his early time at hospital. He suffered from psychosis, which led to intense hallucinations. which he served prison time. Sometime after being freed, he was arrested for a similar offense and was admitted in 1895 to the Waldau Clinic in Bern. At some point after his admission Wölfli began to draw. His first surviving works (a series of 50 pencil drawings) are dated from between 1904 and 1906.Walter Morgenthaler, a doctor at the Waldau Clinic, took a particular interest in Wölfli's art and his condition, later publishing Ein Geisteskranker als Künstler (A Psychiatric Patient as Artist) in 1921 which first brought Wölfli to the attention of the art world. Morgenthaler's book detailed the works of a patient who seemed to have no previous interest in art and developed his talents and skills independently after being committed for a debilitating condition. In this respect, Wölfli was an iconoclast and influenced the development and acceptance of outsider art, Art Brut and its champion Jean Dubuffet. Wölfli produced a huge number of works during his life, often working with the barest of materials and trading smaller works with visitors to the clinic to obtain pencils, paper or other essentials. Morgenthaler closely observed Wölfli's methods, writing in his influential book: "Every Monday morning Wölfli is given a new pencil and two large sheets of unprinted newsprint. The pencil is used up in two days; then he has to make do with the stubs he has saved or with whatever he can beg off someone else. He often writes with pieces only five to seven millimetres long and even with the broken-off points of lead, which he handles deftly, holding them between his fingernails. He carefully collects packing paper and any other paper he can get from the guards and patients in his area; otherwise he would run out of paper before the next Sunday night. At Christmas the house gives him a box of coloured pencils, which lasts him two or three weeks at the most."The images Wölfli produced were complex, intricate and intense. They worked to the very edges of the page with detailed borders. In a manifestation of Wölfli's "horror vacui", every empty space was filled with two small holes. Wölfli called the shapes around these holes his "birds." His images also incorporated an idiosyncratic musical notation. This notation seemed to start as a purely decorative affair but later developed into real composition which Wölfli would play on a paper trumpet. In 1908, he set about creating a semi-autobiographical epic which eventually stretched to 45 volumes, containing a total of over 25,000 pages and 1,600 illustrations. This work was a mix of elements of his own life blended with fantastical stories of his adventures from which he transformed himself from a child to 'Knight Adolf' to 'Emperor Adolf' and finally to 'St Adolf II'. Text and illustrations formed the narrative, sometimes combining multiple elements on kaleidoscopic pages of music, words and colour. Wölfli eventually died at Waldau in 1930 and his works were taken to the Museum of the Waldau Clinic in Bern. After his death the Adolf Wölfli Foundation was formed to preserve his art for future generations. Today its collection is on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern. (courtesy Wiki)
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1st graders drew imaginary creatures, people and abstract imagery after looking at the art of Joan Miro. Miro has always been one of my favorite artists! We talked about the difference between abstract and realistic artwork where artists get their ideas oil pastel and watercolor resists As the students drew their creatures and designs, they looked at the Roll-A-Miro sheets for additional lines and shape inspiration. Here are two other really nice Miro art project ideas: The Elementary Art Room … Read more... →
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Greta Gerwig stars as Frances Halliday, a free-spirited young woman living on a day-by-day basis in New York. Frances is sort of a dancer, but she doesn't really dance much. She also sort of shares a flat with her best friend Sophie, until Sophie moves out with her partner. Thus, Frances jumps from place to place, making new friends while trying to make ends meet. The only constant in her life is Sophie. Gerwig co-wrote the screenplay with director Noah Baumbach, and the story is very personal for both of them. The film finds a perfect balance between drama and subtlety, often shining brightest in the smaller, quieter moments. Frances is both worldly and naive, which gives her quite a few interesting things to say. Here are twelve of the best quotes from this slice-of-life film. Frances: It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Frances: I'm so embarrassed. I'm not a real person yet. Frances: I like things that look like mistakes. Andy: So, what do you do? Frances: It's kinda hard to explain. Andy: Because what you do is complicated? Frances: Because I don't really do it. Frances: I'm too tall to marry. Frances: I'm poor. Benji: That's offensive to actual poor people. Frances: Do I look old to you? Benji: No. Yes. Frances: How old? Benji: Older than I am. Frances: Older than 27? Benji: No. 27 is old, though. Frances: I have so much to do. I think I'll probably read Proust ... Because sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it. Caroline: Proust is pretty heavy. Frances. Yeah, but it's worth it, I hear. Caroline: No, I meant the book. Carrying it on the plane. Frances: I should probably learn french first ... and then read it in French. Sophie: You will always be messy and look at yourself in the mirror too much. Benji: I think it's a great day ... I Internet-acquired three pairs of very rare Ray-Bans. I'm doing awesome. Benji: Frances: undateable. Frances: I love you, Sophie, even if you love your phone that has e-mail more than you love me. Sophie: My phone that has e-mail doesn't leave a casserole dish in the sink for three days.
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Folk art wooden decoration Folk art wooden decoration. These lovely naive decorations would fit in perfectly in a nursery, simple in design they have a lovey slight retro style to them With them being 2 cm deep they can stand up too. made from: Wood dimensions: Whale 13 x 11cm, Bird 10 x 9.5 cm, elephant 12 x 9.5 cm all are 2 cm deep
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