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Outsider Art
Jun. 22nd, 2006 10:42 pmToday i decided to rebel and took time off. Went to London to see the Outsider exhibition at The Whitechapel Gallery called "Inner Worlds Outside". The gallery opens at 11a.m. and i arrived a bit early so i had a coffee at a nearby cafe.
Since the early 20th century ,the terms Art Brut or outside art have encouraged a distinction between mainstream artists and individuals producing art from the fringes of society. This exhibition brings both sides together as two sides to the story of modern art.
Outsider Artists have included psychiatric patients,criminal offenders,self-taught visionaries,mediums and other eccentric individuals.There is a childlike innocence and autonomous creativity in Outsider Art that mainstream avant-garde art seems to miss.
Some of the artists featured in the gallery are Jean Dubuffet,Philip Guston,Wassily kandinsky,Paul Klee,Joan Miro (the Insiders) and Outsider artists such as Henry Darger,Madge Gill,and Adolf Wölffi.
Themes include Faces and masks which reveal the magical powers invested in representations of faces,as in the obsessive intricate drawings by the clairvoyant,Madge Gill.
While Imaginary landscapes shows epic narrativesby Henry Darger,and The Allure of Language explores written language as a coded structure and features the elaborate imaginary maps of Adolf Wölffi.
Other artists featured i was impressed by was a small pen on notepaper piece by Ian Breakwell called "Aimlessness leads To the Aim"Jean Pual Basquiat and Kubin,a s well as two superb pieces by Philip Guston.One of them is featured below.
I stayed there for almost 2 hours and i knew that Stephen was coming to the same venue,but we must have missed each other or he arrrived later.
I visited tthe gallery shop and purchased a copy of "Garageland",the second glossy issue of the art and culture magazine edited by Cathy Lomax,also responsible for Arty #21,which Steviecat reviewed some time ago on his Bypasszine site.
Since the early 20th century ,the terms Art Brut or outside art have encouraged a distinction between mainstream artists and individuals producing art from the fringes of society. This exhibition brings both sides together as two sides to the story of modern art.
Outsider Artists have included psychiatric patients,criminal offenders,self-taught visionaries,mediums and other eccentric individuals.There is a childlike innocence and autonomous creativity in Outsider Art that mainstream avant-garde art seems to miss.
Some of the artists featured in the gallery are Jean Dubuffet,Philip Guston,Wassily kandinsky,Paul Klee,Joan Miro (the Insiders) and Outsider artists such as Henry Darger,Madge Gill,and Adolf Wölffi.
Themes include Faces and masks which reveal the magical powers invested in representations of faces,as in the obsessive intricate drawings by the clairvoyant,Madge Gill.
While Imaginary landscapes shows epic narrativesby Henry Darger,and The Allure of Language explores written language as a coded structure and features the elaborate imaginary maps of Adolf Wölffi.
Other artists featured i was impressed by was a small pen on notepaper piece by Ian Breakwell called "Aimlessness leads To the Aim"Jean Pual Basquiat and Kubin,a s well as two superb pieces by Philip Guston.One of them is featured below.
I stayed there for almost 2 hours and i knew that Stephen was coming to the same venue,but we must have missed each other or he arrrived later.
I visited tthe gallery shop and purchased a copy of "Garageland",the second glossy issue of the art and culture magazine edited by Cathy Lomax,also responsible for Arty #21,which Steviecat reviewed some time ago on his Bypasszine site.
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