Sentences with phrase «outsider artist terms»

Although her work is referred to in outsider artist terms, Mae Engron was an African American abstract colorist trained at Indiana University Herron School of Art.

Not exact matches

Though the art world may not yet have a satisfactory way of referring to artists like Mullen, who are variously described by such leaky terms as self - taught, outsider, and vernacular, it has, over the past few years, shown more interest in them and is gradually growing the existing market for their work.

Folk, naïve, vernacular, visionary, outsider, self - taught — over the past century, a range of terms has emerged to describe artists who rose to prominence despite a lack of formal training.

There, he revealed his deep passion for performative practices and so - called «outsider» artists with two trailblazing shows: «Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art» (2013 — 14), which tracked black performance art from the 1960s to today, and «When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South» (2014), which questioned the exclusory term «outsider art» by bringing together both self - taught and formally educated black artists.

Usually regarded in terms of singularity, the very term «Outsider Art» celebrates an artist's unique experience or vision.

Not even the vogue term «outsider artist» fit the quiltmakers of Gee's Bend comfortably.

It is difficult to precisely define what faux - naive means, but, loosely speaking, it is a term often attached to contemporary painting that actively embraces elements from the visual language associated with outsider and self taught artists.

Taking his cue from Glenn Ligon and Thelma Golden's 2001 exploratory concept of «post-Black» — a term describing artists adamantly against being labeled «black artists» so that they might explore a multiplicity of ideas concerning racial blackness — Majeed engages these questions around folk and outsider by adopting a similar non-essentialist and inquisitive stance in Post Black Folk Art in America.

In his depiction of this, Bas makes a gentle nod to Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 19, although allusions to classical themes and genres are always viewed through the prism of his interpretations as an observer and an outsider — whether trying to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, or portraying punters or freshers, terms unknown to the artist before his Cambridge sojourn.

«Outsider Art» is a term describing artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions.

We will also discuss the often fraught terms used to categorize folk / outsider / self - taught / visionary artists and I hope to be able to touch on the importance of the Kentuck Festival in championing the work of many of these artists.»

By Betty Ann Brown French artist Jean Dubuffet coined the term art brut (usually translated into English as «Outsider Art») to refer to work «created by people outside the professional art world... from their own depths and not from the stereotypes of Classical or fashionable art.»

The exhibition Outliers and American Vanguard Art, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, aims to reconsider the ubiquitous but limited «Outsider» designation as an umbrella term for autodidact artists.

Like many «outsider» (an antiquated, exoticizing term) artists adopted into the contemporary art market, Mullen is a bit of a conundrum despite obvious natural talent.

Since the early 20th - century, the terms Outsider Art and Art Brut have encouraged a problematic distinction between mainstream art and that created by artists with little or no knowledge of the wider art world.

Termed an outsider artist, a vernacular artist, and a folk artist, among other labels, Dial, who was African American, was one of just a few self - taught artists who, over the past century, began making art well beyond the borders of the predominantly urban, white mainstream art world but who would eventually find a form of success within it.

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.»