No artist expresses more freedom than the brut artist of the 20th century. Many of this work was based on perception and interaction that came from different surroundings from which the artist was exposed, and the work was not properly recognized to the believe of being work of a much lower quality. This essay will primarily cover Chapter one, two, three, four, five, six, and nine form the book Raw Creation Outsider Art and Beyond. It will also cover some of the artwork form the book mainly focusing in color and composition. In the first chapter, the book descries how nineteenth century psychologist started to become interested in art as a form of treatment for the mentally ill. This treatment was particularly interesting to me because it
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Dubuffet worried about Art brut been devaluated if the work was shown along the normal artist. William Van Genk’s cities and transportation is a fascinating work of art to me. His work consists of drawings of cities around the world that he saw on travel books. Light and thin lines can be appreciated all of his drawings. He also used a palette of high-saturated colors like red, yellow and blank. Some of his drawings are covered in writings, which I found interesting because of the way he places the writing and the drawing; the writing only strengthens the drawing. Van Genk was also fascinated with communism, hopping this will bring a better life. Augustin Lesage works are among the most important in the collection of Art brut. His huge canvases are highly detailed. Originally a coal miner from France, Lesage heard a vice in his head telling him to do art. His work is symmetrical and organic at the same time. In one of his paintings Symbolique Sur le Mode Spiritues, almost the entire canvas is full of small rectangles and inside those rectangles more detail has been added. Some of the corners and middle up portion of the painting was left empty white creating a background. Another spiritual artist that caught my attention was laure Pigeon. Her work, almost organic like figures started as a therapeutics practice. At the beginning, Pigeon believed that a spirit hand guided her work and she never considered her work as …show more content…
His dolls were made out of rags and feathers and were based on the horrors of the holocaust and the suffering of his own family. His was also in Dubuffet’s Art Brut collection but his development and exhibitions as a professional artist led to fame breaking the strict criteria that Dubuffet had for Art Brut. Madge Gill was a mediumistic artist from England whose extensive work range from small size to extremely large work. She clamed that a spirit guided her in her art. Her work feels very compulsive but has this sense of kinetic energy that flows through the composition. One of my favorite artists from chapter six is Oswald Tschirtner from the clinic at Gugging. His work composed by linear work on a sublime space consists of humanoids, silhouettes of colorless people with only heads and legs. It started to become harder for collector like Dubuffet to find work in clinics like Gugging. The doctors in these clinics started to change their techniques of treatment changing art expression for powerful drugs keeping patients heavily sedated. But not all clinics were the same in Europe some clinics freely in art under the direction of Dr.
Dubuffet worried about Art brut been devaluated if the work was shown along the normal artist. William Van Genk’s cities and transportation is a fascinating work of art to me. His work consists of drawings of cities around the world that he saw on travel books. Light and thin lines can be appreciated all of his drawings. He also used a palette of high-saturated colors like red, yellow and blank. Some of his drawings are covered in writings, which I found interesting because of the way he places the writing and the drawing; the writing only strengthens the drawing. Van Genk was also fascinated with communism, hopping this will bring a better life. Augustin Lesage works are among the most important in the collection of Art brut. His huge canvases are highly detailed. Originally a coal miner from France, Lesage heard a vice in his head telling him to do art. His work is symmetrical and organic at the same time. In one of his paintings Symbolique Sur le Mode Spiritues, almost the entire canvas is full of small rectangles and inside those rectangles more detail has been added. Some of the corners and middle up portion of the painting was left empty white creating a background. Another spiritual artist that caught my attention was laure Pigeon. Her work, almost organic like figures started as a therapeutics practice. At the beginning, Pigeon believed that a spirit hand guided her work and she never considered her work as …show more content…
His dolls were made out of rags and feathers and were based on the horrors of the holocaust and the suffering of his own family. His was also in Dubuffet’s Art Brut collection but his development and exhibitions as a professional artist led to fame breaking the strict criteria that Dubuffet had for Art Brut. Madge Gill was a mediumistic artist from England whose extensive work range from small size to extremely large work. She clamed that a spirit guided her in her art. Her work feels very compulsive but has this sense of kinetic energy that flows through the composition. One of my favorite artists from chapter six is Oswald Tschirtner from the clinic at Gugging. His work composed by linear work on a sublime space consists of humanoids, silhouettes of colorless people with only heads and legs. It started to become harder for collector like Dubuffet to find work in clinics like Gugging. The doctors in these clinics started to change their techniques of treatment changing art expression for powerful drugs keeping patients heavily sedated. But not all clinics were the same in Europe some clinics freely in art under the direction of Dr.