Category: Outsider Art

In the image at top, the plants, low retaining walls, benches and sidewalk are real. Everything else, the stone structures with their carvings and decorative elements, the ironwork bridge and the entire city street and sky behind them, are an image painted on a flat wall. The decoration of walls with murals, both exterior and…

OK, so you’re in an art museum shop, nosing through the Impressionist calendars and Cezanne-on-a-cup bric-a-brac, and you notice what appears to be… a cigarette vending machine. Huh? “What is this?”, you think, “a MOMA-style exhibition of industrial design?” Hmmm…, you walk closer and it becomes obvious that the machine is not vending death-sticks from…

No, it’s not kids sitting around chewing bubble gum and saying “I’ll trade you two Holbeins for a Rembrandt.” (Although I love that idea.) Artist Trading Cards are small, usually original, works of art by contemporary artists (or non-artists) that meet certain criteria and are swapped between artists and collectors. The original concept came from…

I’ve talked before about some art forms that are disrespected by the art establishment and artistic community, like comics, architectural rendering, medical illustration, botanical illustration and paleontological reconstruction art. None of them, however, collect the artistic disdain reserved for that intentionally lowest of lowbrow art forms, tattoo art. Yowsa! Regino Gonzales appears to be a…

Just for a little amusement on a Friday morning, and to point out that anything that allows you to make a mark can be a medium for visual expression, here’s an article from the Austin American-Statesman about Scott Wade, who draws reasonably complex images in the road dust that accumulates on the back of his…