Sentences with phrase «art of psychiatric patients»

«In the mid-1940s, French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985) shocked the art establishment with his paintings inspired by children's drawings, graffiti, and the art of psychiatric patients.

He was inspired by graffiti and the so - called «outsider» art of psychiatric patients, prisoners and children, work that was at odds with the academic, classical notions of beauty in art.

Known more for his paintings, Jean Dubuffet (1901 — 1985) shocked the art establishment by making art inspired by children's drawings, graffiti, and the art of psychiatric patients.

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Since 1982 Marton has been involved with the production of art by psychiatric patients, not as art therapy, he says, but more as occupational training and as an aid in distracting the patients from symptoms that can worsen with the monotony of rehabilitation.

Impressed by the artwork of psychiatric patients, prisoners and children, he amassed a significant collection of such work and invented the influential term art brut — «rough art», often paraphrased in English as «outsider art» — to describe it.

OVARTACI & THE ART OF MADNESS 16/9/2017 -31 / 1/2018 This exhibition for the first time ever presents a significant overview of the life's work created by the unique artist Ovartaci outside the psychiatric hospital in Risskov, where the artist was a patient for 56 yearOF MADNESS 16/9/2017 -31 / 1/2018 This exhibition for the first time ever presents a significant overview of the life's work created by the unique artist Ovartaci outside the psychiatric hospital in Risskov, where the artist was a patient for 56 yearof the life's work created by the unique artist Ovartaci outside the psychiatric hospital in Risskov, where the artist was a patient for 56 years.

The collection began only six years earlier, when he came upon a psychiatric patient's sculpture in Switzerland, and it grew to include the paradigms of art and madness in Heinrich Anton Müller and Adolf Wölfli.

Dubuffet (1901 — 1985) eschewed traditional notions of beauty in art in favor of what he perceived as more authentic forms of expression, inspired by graffiti, children's drawings, and the creations of psychiatric patients.

The three - day sale will feature paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture, including contemporary African pieces and Outsider art — works by those from outside the conventional arts world such as the «Gugging Group», patients at the Gugging psychiatric clinic in Vienna which became renowned for the creativity of many treated there, and its therapeutic work with art.

Art Brut is a phrase coined by Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85), to denote artworks produced by people outside the established art world, such as solitary artists, the maladjusted, patients in psychiatric institutions, and fringe - dwellers of all kinds - typically not for display or profArt Brut is a phrase coined by Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85), to denote artworks produced by people outside the established art world, such as solitary artists, the maladjusted, patients in psychiatric institutions, and fringe - dwellers of all kinds - typically not for display or profart world, such as solitary artists, the maladjusted, patients in psychiatric institutions, and fringe - dwellers of all kinds - typically not for display or profit.

Yet he saw that the drawings of children had a simple profundity and patients in psychiatric institutions could take radical liberties in art.

Foto Johannes SchwartzIn the late 40s and the 50s he played a crucial part in the appreciation of art produced by psychiatric patients, children and self - taught painters (naive painters), nowadays also referred to as «outsider art».