Sentences with phrase «outsider artist born»

Abdelkader Rifi was a French Outsider artist born in 1920.

Carlo Zinelli was an Italian Outsider artist born in 1916.

Aloïse Corbaz was an outsider artist born in 1886 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Born into slavery in 1854, African American artist Bill Traylor saved up his memories until he was 85 years old, and then started producing «outsider art» during a 10 - year career that ended with his death in 1949.

I feel like artists sometimes are outsiders, and I feel like foster youth, through no volition of their own, are born outside of the social contract.

Born in Klosterneuburg, Austria in 1936, August Walla was an outsider artist who created images composed of countless mixed words and symbols.

Whether deemed «outsider» — Henry Darger, Martín Ramírez, George Widener — or «self - taught» — Thornton Dial, Sr., Minnie Evans, Lonnie Holley — these artists bear categorical markers that organize their art but do not adequately speak of their art's unique qualities and circumstances.

An idiosyncratic, eccentric and extremely prolific outsider artist, Louis M. Eilshemius was born in 1864 on his family's estate, Laurel Hill Manor, in Arlington, New Jersey, to Henry G. and Cécilie Elise Eilshemius, the sixth of eight children.

In the paintings for which he first became known, de Balincourt worked from the position of an outsider (the Paris - born artist has lived in the United States since childhood), questioning structures of power and influence, laying bare injustices and hypocrisies while maintaining an amused attachment to the myths through which identity — individual and national — is constructed.

Despite having turned 80 last summer and boasting a successful 50 - year career, Sheila Hicks (born Nebraska, 1934) still considers herself an «outsider» artist.

Considered an outsider artist, Traylor (who was featured at the American Folk Art Museum in 2013) was born a slave in 1854 in Alabama, and didn't begin making art until he was 85 and homeless, when he met artist Charles Shannon, who gave him cardboard and art supplies.

Outsider art is the common Anglicized term for the category art brut, founded by the artist Jean Dubuffet, whose earliest inductees were asylum patients, mediums, and visionaries who he praised for their «unselfconscious imagery born of pure, uninhibited expression.»