Category: Outsider Art
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1923 aka Heaven and 1925 aka Hell by Max Hattler
1923 aka Heaven (images above, top five) and 1925 aka Hell (above, bottom 5) are two animated film by Max Hattler that were inspired by two paintings by French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. The two paintings are both named A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World, one painted in 1923 (above, middle left) and one…
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Art-o-Mat (update)
So you’re standing in front of a beautifully refurbished vending machine; you put in your golden token, make your selection, pull the selection knob, listen to the delightful “clunkity-clunk” that means your selection has arrived in the vending tray; you reach down and pick up your… art? Yes, if the vending machine is one of…
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Jim Denevan
Making lines in sand or earth with a stick is probably the oldest form of drawing practiced by human beings; followed, perhaps, by using a burned stick to make marks on rocks (charcoal drawing!). Many of us (myself certainly included) still love to make drawings in semi-wet sand at the shoreline; making exquisitely brief marks…
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Alchemeyez: Visionary Art Conference
Visionary art might be loosely described as an attempt to express the inexpressible, to make manifest a visual statement of an inner mystical or visionary experience that is almost universally categorized as one that cannot be directly described in conventional terms. Still the desire of artists to create some form of expression in response to…
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Dan Hillier
Dan Hillier is a UK artist working in the tradition of Max Ernst’s Surrealist collage (see my post on A Week of Kindness, also here). Using similar source material from reproductions of Victorian engravings, Hillier combines various images, and unlike Earnst, adds some pen and ink modifications of his own, to create disconcerting, horror-tinged images.…
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Cheeming Boey
Cheeming Boey draws on styrofoam coffee cups with a sharpie pen. Those of us who have a tendency to doodle on whatever surface is handy may not think that surprising, but the degree of skill and work that he puts into his unusual medium is outstanding. His subjects range from cartoons to detailed stippled portraits…