Welcome to Outsider – Art from the Outside. Art from the Outside is a magazine dedicated to Outsider Artists! We use the term “Outsider” loosely to cover various other art forms. Below is a non conclusive listing of what you can expect to see in Outsider Art Magazine: Outsider Art Art Brut Self-Taught Artists Folk Art Underground Arts Lowbrow Art Dark Art Naïve Art Neuve Invention Intuitive Art etc … Of course, the is not a list set in stone and there are more than a few ways to interpret what constitutes an Outsider Artist. Art is Art
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La Collection de l'Art brut inaugure vendredi à Lausanne une exposition temporaire dédiée aux moyens de locomotion. Cet événement est le premier de la série des biennales de l'Art brut.
Art from the Outside is a magazine dedicated to Outsider Artists! We use the term “Outsider” loosely to cover various other art forms. Below is a non conclusive listing of what you can expect to see in Outsider Art Magazine: Outsider Art Art Brut Self-Taught Artists Folk Art Underground Arts Lowbrow Art Dark Art Naïve Art Neuve Invention Intuitive Art etc … Of course, the is not a list set in stone and there are more than a few ways to interpret what constitutes an Outsider Artist.
Adolf Wolfli was admitted to Waldau Mental Asylum in Bern, Switzerland at age thirty-one. Diagnosed with Schizophrenia, Wolfli spent the rest of his life in this institution where he proceeded to produce an enormous body of art work. His fnal masterpiece, The Funeral March was a written musical score that consisted of 1,000 collaged pages.
Mehrdad Rashidi was born in the town of Sari in Northern Iran in 1963. At the age of 20 he fled Iran because of his strongly held political views and settled in Germany. In 2006, for no particular reason, he began to draw. He found it relaxed him and made him feel happy, he also thought of his homeland, his childhood and easier times in his life whilst he doodled on any piece of paper that came to hand.
Adolf Wolfli inadvertently championed so-called "outsider art" with his own auto-biographical artwork. But what is "outsider art" and why wouldn't it qualify as art?
Fils unique d’une mère possessive, Lubos Plny se passionne dès l’enfance pour le dessin mais aussi pour l’anatomie, les corps morts, les autopsies, au point de passer un diplôme de fossoyeur une fois adulte. Au cours d’une visite médicale durant son service militaire, on lui détecte des troubles psychiques qui le conduisent dans un service psychiatrique […]
HOUSTON, Texas — In this long, hot summer of violence, election-campaign anxiety, and widespread malaise, seekers of relief might find solace in music, movies or visits to museums — that is, in art in general, not so much for escapism, but for art’s reassuring messages about the endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
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Augustin Lesage (1876 – 1954) was a French coal miner who later became an artist, following the direction of a voice he heard. As an artist, he was untrained and is thus considered an outsider artist or as part of the art brut movement (another term for outsider art). The French artist Jean Dubuffet coined…
From his twitter feed: MikeyWelsh71Mikey Welsh dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today. 26 Sep Mikey Welsh was found dead in a hotel room in Ch…
Vestiges & Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, an exhibition of illustrated texts by self-taught artists, feels so intimate that it seems to enter the creative process itself.
There is a way that you can even direct people who are going through troubled times to use art to make a living. They could always try super smart DIY
Aloïse, a major figure of art brut, also known as outsider or raw art, produced all her phantasmagoric drawings during her long internment for schizophrenia. Had the Swiss artist received medicatio…
As an exhibition of work by "accidental artists" opens in London, Izabella Scott goes in search of naive art from around the world.
