Outsider Art: Henry Darger A Hidden Artistry Evolved Into Music
Henry Darger was born in 1892 in Chicago, Illinois, he led a very isolated life and had no close relatives to speak of.
23 January 2021
Outsider art
Jamaican Art – Intuitive Outsiders But With That Old Time Religion
Jamaican art has never been as experimental as that to be found in – say – Cuba, its neighboring island in the Greater Antilles. Cuban art reached out to the Modernist Movement almost as soon as it began. And Cuba has always had links to what was going on in the mainland nations of Latin America. Art in Jamaica, linked to the UK, remained consistently more conservative.
6 June 2017
Bad Art vs Naive Art With All The Pop Cultural References
Art in whatever form – painting, theatre, a child’s potato stamp – is the means by which we express externally… Read More
29 May 2015
Bryan Pearce Outsider Art Stolen In Cornwall Heist
Works by outsider artist Bryan Pearce have been stolen from a quiet Cornwall village. The burglar took the works from… Read More
17 February 2015
The Secrets of Outsider Art Revealed In New London Exhibition
Once the term Outsider Art, Raw Art or Art Brut was used to describe work produced by artists working in… Read More
17 September 2013
Madge Gill Inside The Outside Artist Ethos – New London Exhibition
Madge Gill produced thousands of ink drawings during her lifetime, with no training and no aspirations to fame. Her work… Read More
24 August 2013
Prisoners Paint Humanity In A Parallel World Often Forgotten
Artist and documentarian Dave Adler has devoted the latter part of his career unearthing a unique subculture existing within the… Read More
15 May 2013
Art By Offenders Explores The Dark And Light Side Of Prison Life
UNLESS you’re a master forger the idea of art and crime mixing together might not spring instantly to mind. However… Read More
8 November 2011
Museum Of Bad Art Taste Challenge
Is this art really as bad as the critics want us to believe? I have always been a fan of… Read More
18 August 2011