Sunday, 12 February 2012

I choose You, Outsider art :)

A brief explanation of the Outside Art
There are few artist that uses different explanation and definition given to the outsider art. The art is normally created outside the boundaries of official cultures, making the artwork fully expressed by the creativity of the artist itself. Most of the outsider art movements artist were never known until they were dead as they never go through mainstream style or even went to art institutions for any special education in order to produce their artworks. Outsider art were normally "naive" as most of it were based on illustrations of extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaboration of their own fantasy, and have a special term~the art of insane.

According to Roger Cardinal, a piece Outsider art can also be known as art brut or raw art.
Jean Dubuffet, a French artist discovered the outsider art from the piece of arts which were produced by the insane-asylum inmates.

One of the famous Outsider art were created by a mental patient, Adolf Wolfii who were in the 1920's taken care by Dr. Walter Morgenthaler. He spontaneously uses arts to calm himself when he was in the insane-asylum and already created a lot of outstanding artworks based on his imaginary life stories. Other than spending time on major artwork, he also made a lot of smaller piece of arts which were used as a gift or even to be sold.
This is one of the famous artwork by Adolf Wolfii which is called "Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain
 

 Musical Annotations by Adolf Wolfii


Regardless of the so-called art of insane, the changes in generations had brought the art movement to the next level. Some of the artworks emphasize the dramatic movements away from the culture of the past. Such as Marcel Duchamp who doesn't focus on painted artwork but like to re-contextualize an existing object as his artwork. 
One of his famous artwork is the Duchamp urinal, as shown below.

 
 
There are more artist who uses Outsider art movement as their ways to produce their art. For me, i choose this art movement because i don't seems to be good in any realism artwork which needs more focus to produce one, so i rather choose the one which go through more on creativity and own fantasy in order to produce an art work. :)
 
 
      Artwork By: anonymous        

 Artwork By: Matt Leines
~All the references are from wikipedia~


                                           



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