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laodan discovered 26 months ago
View from the exterior Outsider art or art brut in French. I never well understood the distinction between art and outsider art. Its seems to me that "outsider artists" like children express the naivete of honesty while artists too often seem to be calculating and calibrating their works so as to obtain the maximum effect on the viewers. It seems to me that outsider artists search satisfaction in the immediacy of the act of painting while many artists calculate for obtaining a future satisfaction... in the Guardian Unlimited Arts by Philip Hensher """ The fascination of outsider art is brilliantly explored by an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Inner Worlds Outside. It sets the work of self-taught obsessives - sometimes, people with mental illness - next to the work of classic artists who had an interest in their bizarre work. That's always been the rationale for taking it seriously. In previous generations, western artists discovered African tribal art, children's art, graffiti - things outside the accepted canon - and learned from those simplicities. Subsequently, artists such as Klee and Dubuffet imitated the outsiders, and their art was rejuvenated. """ URL: Vie w from the exterior URL: Adrian Searle: Inner Worlds Outside at the Whitechapel Gallery URL: Inside the mind of Henry Darger URL: More about Henry Darger
