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The Need for Expression
I am always fascinated with the need for self expression displayed by many folk or outsider artists. There is a great purity in it, a direct line to the artist’s inner drive and self that can’t be...
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Possum Trot
Calvin Black, Folk Artist 1903-1972 There’s another terrific website out there called folkstreams.net which is an archive of films that describes itself in its site’s header as “ A National Preserve...
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Purvis of Overtown
I’ve always been drawn to the work of self-taught artists and the way they synthesize their experience into their work, finding forms for their need for expression. There is a great freeness and...
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The New Orleans of Roy Ferdinand
“Known in New Orleans art circles as a sort of ‘Goya of the ghetto,’ Ferdinand has described his work as rap in pictures, while some critics have placed his utterly honest depictions of inner city...
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Lee Godie, French Impressionist
I have a real soft spot in my heart for self-taught and outsider artists, the untrained artists who are driven to create by forces that no one truly understands. There is something about their...
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The Art Brut of Adolf Wolfli
I’ve written here before about some of my favorite Outsider artists, those untrained artists who follow their obsessive need for expression even as they suffer hardships such as illness, extreme...
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The Treasure of Ulysses Davis
Ulysses Davis- Lost Tribe in the Swamp with Alligators I recently came across the work of another folk/outsider artist whose work really resonates with me. It is by Ulysses Davis, a barber who lived...
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No Rules
I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is....
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The Art Brut of Adolf Wolfli/ A Revisit
I ran the post below a number of years back and thought I’d revisit it and add a video slideshow that shows a bit more of Wolfli’s works accompanied by music that he composed. Fascinating stuff… I’ve...
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