COP3 dissertation proposal: Outsider Art
Niko Pirosmani
Jean Debuffet, not an outsider artist but the founder of Art Brut, a similar movement if not a precursor to O.A. / the same
DuBuffett wanted to liberate the art from the stigma of psychiatric labels such as “art of the insane”, therefore he created a non-psychiatric term to describe it. DuBuffett believe that the psychopathology of the artist was only one way to purify the artist’s freshness of vision. Outsider art could also include the art of social outsiders, spiritualists and eccentrics… Roger Cardinal, a british humanities professor, coined the term “outsider art” - Simone Alter Muri
ARTHOUSE Meath
The MoBA (Museum of Bad Art)
Leonard Knight (Salvation Mountain) It is their lack, rather than their attributes, that defines them. The art of integrated professionals is generically labeled contemporary art. Even though self-taught artists are our contemporaries, they are not labeled as such. - Gary Alan Fine
Such artists are often seen as practicing within a psychological or health framework — art therapy — in which art making is a method rather than a cultural form. Alternatively they are included in the dubious category of ‘outsider art’, whereby they become fetishised as practitioners allegedly operating beyond the despoiling influence of commercial or professional concerns. - Hugh Nichols
Robyn Beverland
Roland Barthes, Death of the Author
Basquiat (Being self-taught is an important sign of authenticity, for it suggests that the artist is not repressed by the art establishment and society in general, and so is freely expressive.) Self- taught marginal art is highly esteemed because it seems inherently perverse, especially in its physicality, and its much- noted awkwardness is the sign of this perversity. - Donald Kuspit
Howard Finster
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How are Outsider Artists received by the greater art world? Is the label Outsider Art a barrier to artists? Do attitudes towards Outsider Art damage both artist and art? Are Outsider Artists exploited by the greater art world? What are the benefits and the disadvantages of the grouping of Outsider Art? Is the label Outsider Art detrimental to the well being and production of these artists?
Me trying to paint in an intuitive way but it doesn’t look much different to what I usually do
Ferdinand Cheval Adolphe Julien
Howard Finster
Me