Friday, April 13, 2012

Outsider Art

I read this quote on the wikipedia page for "Outsider Art"

Jean Dubuffet characterized art brut (outsider, or raw art) as:
"Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere – are, because of these very facts, more precious than the productions of professionals. After a certain familiarity with these flourishings of an exalted feverishness, lived so fully and so intensely by their authors, we cannot avoid the feeling that in relation to these works, cultural art in its entirety appears to be the game of a futile society, a fallacious parade."

Amen.

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