Visionary, Self -Taught & Folk
Artists
PRESS RELEASE—Art Exhibition
Contact: Gallery information: 631-288-5082/ Media
information: 631-653-4486
Title: 2nd Annual “Outsider Art in the
Date:
Location: Gallerie BelAge,
Gallery Hours: Monday thru Friday 10 - 5:00, Saturday 11 -
8:00, Sunday 12 - 6:00
Reception:
The 2nd Annual “Outsider Art in the
This show is a unique opportunity to experience the cutting
edge in Southern Folk Art and Self-Taught Visionary + Outsider Art. A
combination of internationally recognized and up and coming artists will be
displaying amazing works in this exciting genre of art.
The
artists featured in this exhibit include:
Purvis Young//Danielle Jacqui//
Candyce Brokaw//Moses Toliver// Anne Grgich// Jimmy
Lee Sudduth//
Lonnie Holley// Donna Balma// Matt
Sesow// Ross Brodar// Tineke Scholten//
Gérard Sendrey //Jaco Kranendonk// Les Gaullino// Marc de Bruijn //
Gabriel Schaffer//
The artwork is available to photograph before the show:
631-653-4486 or 631-288-5082
The term Outsider Art was coined by art critic Roger
Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (which literally translates
as “Raw Art”). The interest in "outsider" practices among twentieth
century artists and critics can be seen as part of a larger emphasis on the
rejection of established values within the modernist art
milieu. The early part of the 20th Century gave rise to cubism and the Dada, Constructivist
and Futurist
movements in art, all of which involved a dramatic movement away from cultural
forms of the past. Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, for example,
abandoned "painterly" technique to allow chance operations a role in
determining the form of his works, or simply to re-contextualize existing
"readymade" objects as art. Mid-century artists, including Pablo Picasso,
looked "outside" the traditions of high culture for inspiration,
drawing from the artifacts of "primitive" societies, the unschooled
artwork of children, and vulgar advertising graphics. Dubuffet's
championing of the art of the insane and others at the margins of society is
yet another example of avant-garde art challenging established cultural values.
"Outsider Art" is often applied more broadly, to
include certain self-taught or Naïve art
. Much Outsider Art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or
elaborate fantasy worlds.
Outsider Art is virtually synonymous with Art Brut in both
spirit and meaning.
Folk art originally suggested crafts and decorative skills
associated with peasant communities in
The crossover of Folk Art with Outsider Art is undeniable,
but most Folk Art has its own traditions and is often very different from the
psychic flow of Art Brut.
Visionary Art unlike other definitions here can often refer
to the subject matter of the works, which includes images of a spiritual or
religious nature. Intuitive art is probably the most general term available.
Raw art, 'raw' in that it has not been through the 'cooking'
process: the art world of art schools, galleries, museums.
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