Friday, April 13, 2007

Outsider Art



























"A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance."

Stanislaw Lem

And with that lofty quote from one of my favorite sci-fi authors, we shall enter into the not-oft-traveled world of outsider art, or, that is, art produced by the untrained and in most cases mentally... Odd. You can go straigh to the source, wikipedia, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art

The work that you see above is Adolf Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, created 1910. I'm not sure if it's just me, but when I look at it I feel like I'm standing inside, and partially outside, an easter orthadox cathedral that has been pushed into two dimensions. AW also composed music and wrote a sprawling fantasy based on his own life that included 25,000 pages, 1,600 illustrations and 1,500 collages.

On a tangent, I just found this post excellent art blog while looking for something else: http://www.mrbalihai.com/goof/art/






No comments: