Themes in ArtOutsider Art
Outsider Art
Unconventional visions
It’s been called art brut, vernacular art, primitive art, and raw art. Through history some artists have defied classification. Working outside the mainstream art world we find wildly creative people rewriting history, preaching a message, or trying to silence their demons.
Sit today, my dear child: whosoever's hungry, may bark: the warhose flies in the wind: the pointer with the trowel: is truly my worst foe.
The man who rewrote his life
1864 – 1930
It's never too late to tell your story
1854 – 1949
Anti-gravity fuel and the adventures of the Sonora Aero Club
1830 – 1923
A pacifist paints lions and leopards
1780 – 1849
Non-competitive art for the literati, gay and polyglot
1871 – 1944
Painting dreams with a child's brush
1844 – 1910
The world isn't ready
1862 – 1944
Religion in technicolor
1920 – 2013
Jamaica's long night
1891 – 1947
Who was Joshua Johnson?
1763 – 1824
Cocoons, totems and twins
1943 – 2005
An orphan talks to angels
1882 – 1961
Will paint for food
1862 – 1918
In death, celebrate life
They're marionettes. That's what they are
1879 – 1948
