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What IS Outsider Art?
By Christa Haight
The term "outsider art" is much used and
abused. So what does it mean, anyway?
Primarily, outsider art is art produced by
an artist without formal training of any kind
- purely self-taught - and showing talent
and artistic insight that is often deemed
missing in the cookie-cutter products of
many of the world's art schools. The
creative works of the naïve, the innocent,
the visionary, the eccentric, the mentally ill
and even the criminal are all included in
this category. Similar names include art
singulïer, marginal art, and naïve or naïf art.
The original term used for these unusual
works was Art Brüt - literally Art "in the
raw", which referred to works produced by
people who were not culturally
indoctrinated or socially conditioned in a
way that would be acceptable to most in
the modern world. Original producers of
Art Brut were often the insane or criminals,
although the term certainly extended to
wounded souls who for one reason or
another had become society's outcasts.
This term has been transliterated into
Outsider Art.
Outsider artists are the fringe-dwellers of
the world, the outcasts of society. They are
the ones left over and left behind. These
people are in the gray area of art, quite
literally outsiders to the modern gallery /
agent system which seems to be required
for one to be recognized as a legitimate
artist.
To read more of this wonderful, well
written (not by me), article :
PLEASE CLICK HERE

This is a terrific article written by a
wonderful artist and writer acquaintance
of mine...I call him Mr. Wittig because I
like the sound of it, and I do it with
respect. So please read on and then visit
his site, just click on the link at the bottom.
*******
23/March/2005 08:21 - Chicago

A couple weeks ago, an individual on one
of the email lists I frequent said
something like:
'I am a poet, and believe true poetry
comes from the soul'.
This made me wonder about a few things...
What is a poet?
What is 'true poetry', and how can it be
distinguished from poetry that is 'not
true'?
What is 'the soul', and does everybody
have one?
If a person doesn't have a soul, but they
want to write poetry, can they, or will
trying only result in the production of
drivel, nonsense, or some other form of
pointless verbiage?
No, I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, here...
well... maybe just a little teensy bit of a
wise ass, but just for flavouring.
I've written a lot of articles/papers about
this stuff over the years... probably over
1,000 pages... most relating to easel
painting and the visual arts. All of it is
available for perusal in the 'Papers'
section on my website ->
httml#p37" target="_blank">CLICK HERE