"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/
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