OUTSIDER ART: Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection At Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
I have temporarily run out of photos of Herbert Freeman’s artwork. It may be some time before I am able to post some more. Rather than put this blog on hiatus I have decided to head each post wit…
She stopped speaking aged four, and has since communicated only through her acutely detailed drawings. As her first UK exhibition opens, her sister and curator reveal an extraordinary life – and talent
Scottie Wilson/Скотти Уилсон (6 июня 1888 г. - 1972). Родился в Глазго, Шотландия. В возрасте 8 лет бросил школу и стал работать, чтобы помогать своей бедной семье, в том числе продавал газеты на улице. Во время Первой мировой войны служил на Западном фронте. После войны эмигрировал в Канаду, где…
Around the world, self-taught builders have been inspired by dreams and daydreams to decorate their homes and yards with elaborate sculptures and artwork....
'In the case of British artist Nick Blinko (b.1961), who has in the past been hospitalised, the need to make pictures is stronger than the desire for the psychic 'stability' brought by therapeutic drugs which adversely affects his ability to work. His images are constructed of microscopically detailed elements, sometimes consisting of literally hundreds of interconnecting figures and faces, which he draws without the aid of magnifying lenses and which contain an iconography that places him in the company of the likes of Bosch, Bruegel and the late Goya.
Around the world, self-taught builders have been inspired by dreams and daydreams to decorate their homes and yards with elaborate sculptures and artwork....
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Joseph Yoakum was a self-taught landscape artist living in Chicago. Read about his individual style in Raw Vision 16. http://rawvision.com/articles/joseph-yoakum-beginning
