Perpetuating the glamorized narrative of the artistic benefits of culturally isolated madness feels both outdated and detrimental to living
outsider artists whose practices can in fact provide a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of mental disability.
On the occasion of a survey of his work, which opened at the American Folk Art Museum in New York in 2010, the critic Roberta Smith wrote in the New York Times, «Von Bruenchenhein belongs among the great American
outsider artists whose work came to light or resurfaced in the last three decades of the 20th century...» She placed Von Bruenchenhein's unusual art in the company of that of Henry Darger, Martin Ramírez, Bill Traylor, James Castle and Morton Bartlett.
On the occasion of a 2010 survey of his work at the American Folk Art Museum in New York, Roberta Smith wrote in The New York Times: «Von Bruenchenhein belongs among the great American
outsider artists whose work came to light or resurfaced in the last three decades of the 20th century.»
Nell Minow: Sally Hawkins gives an exquisite performance as
the outsider artist whose vibrant, life - affirming paintings brought joy to everyone who saw them.
Not exact matches
With The Disaster
Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true - story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable
Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true - story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood
outsider Tommy Wiseau — an
artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable
artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.
The film is about a New York art curator
whose quest to find out who killed her brother dovetails with an obsession for collecting the violent drawings of New Orleans
outsider artist Roy Ferdinand.
Barry is an
outsider artist withoutknowing it, in total contrast to the pretentiously egomaniacal painter andperformance
artist Kieran (Jemaine Clement),
whose work is being represented byTim's sparkling girlfriend, Julie (Stephanie Szostak).
Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster
Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable
Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster
Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable
Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood
outsider Tommy Wiseau — an
artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable
artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.
Three works by the
outsider sculptor Judith Scott (1943 - 2005), known for creating evocative misshapen presences by wrapping found objects in layers of yarn, share a low platform with the work of the mainstream
artist Nancy Shaver,
whose delicate assemblage - boxes covered with found papers and fabrics, resemble folk - art updates.
From Norman Lewis to Joe Overstreet, the Harlem Renaissance — derived tradition of African - American abstract painting (which has historically had a primarily black audience) is intermingled with the tradition of so - called self - taught or
outsider artists such as Bill Traylor and Bessie Harvey (
whose audience has been mostly in the rural south and mostly black); the more recent wave of African - American conceptualism represented by Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, and others (
whose work
Historically, the focus on an
Outsider artist's biography often compensated for an absence of the
artist's voice, especially in the case of
artists whose disabilities prevented any conventional form of communication (such as Judith Scott who was a deaf mute who also had Down's syndrome) or when the
artist worked outside of public scrutiny (as with someone like Darger).
He is a complete
outsider and this incredible early work,
whose sister work is hanging in the Walker Art Center, is made out of the
artist's hair and vinyl discs, is completely modern and at the same time timeless.
But really, the show belongs to the «
outsider artists» (such an irritating appellation),
whose obsessions and sorrows emanate freely — even suffocatingly — from their gorgeous, haunted objects.
Autistica, the UK's leading autism research charity and Mehta Bell Projects, are pleased to announce «An Infinitely Beautiful Mind», a charity art sale and exhibition which will present the works of
artists ranging from modern masters, contemporary and emerging talents through to
outsider art,
whose work share the desire to represent the human experience through highly detailed and laborious artistic techniques.
He mentioned the late post-Minimalist sculptor Bill Bollinger (
whose comeback retrospective is at New York's SculptureCenter right now), Japanese
outsider Yayoi Kusama and the indefinable Lee Lozano — all of whom were once known only by a handful of
artists and art historians, but who now are achieving various degrees of fame.
Alice Mackler is a ceramic
artist whose brightly glazed sculptures of female figures, with their exaggerated eyes and breasts, look vaguely «
outsider.»
We can even speak of «canonical»
outsider artists (Henry Darger, James Castle, Martín Ramírez)
whose prominence within this art - historical rubric seems as secure as Pollock's and De Kooning's within Abstract Expressionism.
Another
artist whose aesthetic evokes the single - minded labor of the stereotypical
outsider artist, Étienne - Martin, is being shown by Paris's Galerie Bernard Bouche.
About Louis M. Eilshemius Louis M. Eilshemius (American, 1864 - 1941) was a fascinating
outsider of the New York art scene at the beginning of the twentieth century, and an
artist whose entire oeuvre had remained practically unknown to the general public.
This type of iconoclastic creativity was first collected by the French
artist Jean Dubuffet
whose collection of
Outsider Art (Collection of Art Brut) hangs in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Paschke was known as a member of the late - 1960s Chicago Imagist movement, a group of
artists who called themselves The Hairy Who,
whose expressive style of figurative painting was rooted in
outsider art, popular culture, and Surrealism.
«More than ever contemporary collectors are buying
outsider art,» he posited, naming the «blue chip»
artists as Darger, Martin Ramirez, Grandma Moses, and James Castle, adding Augustin Lesage, a French
artist from the late 1920s, a work of
whose sold for $ 519,238 last year at auction, according to Artnet.
At the present moment, however — at a time of increased interest in such European and American
artists as Kozan's near contemporary, Biloxi potter George E. Ohr,
whose work was rediscovered in the 1970s; in 1960s ceramic
artists like Ron Nagle and Ken Price; in
outsider artist and ceramicist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein; and in contemporary
artists working in clay like Kathy Butterly, Andrew Lord, and Arlene Shechet — it is Kozan's more eccentric sculpted works that resonate.
The American
outsider artist Henry Darger,
whose illustrations depict an elaborate fantasy world of children battling adults, was a major influence.
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.»
On Stephen Vitiello's 2007 album, he salutes another
artist from an older generation,
outsider sculptor Donald Judd,
whose various wood and metal sculptures in the town of Marfa, TX form the basis of this work.