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Category: Outsider Art

  • John Pugh

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    Trompe l’oeil, French for “trick the eye” is an illusionary art technique with a long history in Western art. The intention is to create an optical illusion, in that the viewer is given the impression that there is a three dimensional object or scene before them, not just a realistic image (see some of my…

  • MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

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    I’m usually not a fan of the destructive ego stoking defacement of buildings that is grafitti, at least not until it gets sophisticated to the point of impromptu wall murals (and I’ll point out that the illusionistic sidewalk art I like is done in chalk and washes away); but defacement aside, I’ll make an exception…

  • S. Clay Wilson

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    Taking a page from yesterday’s post about the first issue of Juxtapoz, which featured an article on Zap Comix 13, I wanted to make a hopefully timely post about underground comix artist S. Clay Wilson. Wilson is a cartoonist and comics artist whose work is rude, crude and full of atti-tude to the point where…

  • Juxtapoz Archives

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    Juxtapoz is an alternative art and culture magazine, loosely dedicated to outsider art, urban contemporary art and “lowbrow art” (or “pop surrealism”). The magazine was started by Robert Williams, who was at one time an assistant to Ed, “Big Daddy” Roth. Williams was also a pioneering underground cartoonist (one of my favorites) and contributor to…

  • William Laskin

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    Inlay is a decorative process in which small pieces of material with differing colors are laid into carved channels in the surface of an object to create a pattern or image. Inlays are often applied to decorative boxes or other small objects using wood veneer. It is also a common practice to use other materials,…

  • Anamorphic Art

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    An anamorphosis is an image that is distorted in such a way that it only assumes the proportions of recognizable forms when viewed from a certain angle, or by reflection in a curved surface. The term comes from the Greek anamorphoun, to transform. Anamorphic images have a long history in art. The earliest examples in…