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outsider art
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art created outside the boundaries of official culture by those untrained in the arts
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Adolf Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 Anna Zemánková, No title, 1960s Niko Pirosmani, Deer, 1901 Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.
The term outsider art was coined in 1972 as the title of a book by art critic Roger Cardinal. It is an English equivalent for art brut ( French: [aʁ bʁyt], "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created in the 1940s 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, using as examples psychiatric hospital patients, hermits, and spiritualists.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “outsider art” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.