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The term '''outsider art''' was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, such as psychiatric hospital patients and children.
[[File:Adolf_Woelfli.jpg|thumb|Adolf Wölfli, a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label. Circa 1920.]]The term '''outsider art''' was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, such as psychiatric hospital patients and children.


== Description ==
While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or naïve art makers who were never institutionalized.


While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or naïve 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.
 
Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category.


Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions.
== In the News ==


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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Rotoscope.png|link=Don Tasmian|Artist-Engineer [[Don Tasmian]] is credited with coining the phrase "[[outsider mathematics]]".
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Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category; an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1993, and there are at least two regularly published journals dedicated to the subject.
== Fiction cross-reference ==


The term is sometimes misapplied as a catch-all marketing label for art created by people who are outside the mainstream "art world" or "art gallery system", regardless of their circumstances or the content of their work.
* [[Outsider mathematics]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==


* [[Outsider mathematician (nonfiction)]]
* [[Art (nonfiction)]]
 
== Fiction cross-reference ==


== External links ==
== External links ==


* [http://wiki.karljones.com/index.php?title=Outsider_art Outsider art] @ wiki.karljones.com
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art Outsider art] @ Wikipedia
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art Outsider art] @ Wikipedia


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Adolf Wölfli, a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label. Circa 1920.

The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, such as psychiatric hospital patients and children.

While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or naïve 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.

Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

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