Презентация, доклад к уроку английского языка: Outsider Art

Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French"rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture.


While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or naive art makers who were never institutionalized. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.

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typically psychiatric patients, criminals or self-taught visionaries. Interest in Outsider Art has run parallel to the understanding of the human mind: the evolution of psychiatry in the late Nineteenth Century. Works by psychiatric patients, collected by doctors, were seen as routes into the human mind, pathways between inner and outer worlds, and as maps of the unconscious.

grow in the 1920s. It was Jean Dubuffet who realised that spontaneous, original and uninfluenced creation was not just the preserve of the mentally ill.

Outsider Art has now established itself as a vibrant component of contemporary art and large collections can be visited in Europe and the United States, where exhibitions of Outsider Art are held regularly in major art museums and, in addition to the Collection de l'Art Brut, specialist museums have been established in many countries.

sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of 10.
Wölfli produced a huge number of works during his life, often working with the barest of materials and trading smaller works with visitors to the clinic to obtain pencils, paper or other essentials.

was a reclusive American writer and artist who worked as a custodian in Chicago, Illinois. He has become famous for his posthumously-discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story.