Art Brut Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Art Brut is an informal
art genre. The term (meaning
Raw Art) was coined by French painter
Jean Dubuffet for the art of the insane. Dubuffet became fascinated by the paintings of people institutionalized with
schizophrenia such as
Adolf Wolfli, Heinrich Anton Muller, Aloïse Corbaz and the
Prinzhorn Collection.
As the Incorrect Music Hour defines it, "A true 'Incorrect' artist must be sincere and lack self-awareness. A severe irony deficiency helps. Any humorous overtones to their work must be unintentional."
A certain overlap and confusion with Folk art, Naïve art and Outsider art is common. The distinction between these genres might be described thus:
- Art Brut: The art of the clinically insane, especially painting and drawing.
- Folk art: The art of the ignorant; that is, those unfamiliar with the History of painting and without aspirations to being Fine art.
- Naïve art, Outsider art: More politically correct terms that gather together both of the above.
What they share is the capacity to be patronizingly celebrated as somehow more free and original than the fine art found in galleries and traditions, being free of
The Anxiety of Influence.
Literature
- Jean Dubuffet: L’Art brut préféré aux arts culturels [1949](=engl in: "Art brut: Madness and Marginalia", special issue of "Art & Text", No. 27, 1987, p. 31-33)
- Publications de la Compagnie de l'Art Brut - L'art brut, Vol. I-XX, Lausanne, Collection de l'Art Brut, 1964-1985
- L'Art brut, Exhb. cat. Musée des arts décoratifs, April 7-June 5, 1967, Paris, 1967
- Roger Cardinal, Outsider Art, London, 1972
- Harald Szeemann, Ein neues Museum für Lausanne. In: Id., Individuelle Mythologien. Berlin 1985
- Michel Thévoz, Art brut, New York, 1975
- John M. MacGregor, The Discovery of the Art of the Insane. Princeton, Oxford 1989
- Parallel Visions. Modern Artists and Outsider Art. Exhb. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1992
- Allen S. Weiss, Shattered Forms, Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism, State University of New York, Albany, 1992
- Roger Cardinal, Art Brut. In: Dictionary of Art, Vol. 2, London, 1996
- John Maizels, Raw Creation art and beyond, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1996
- Colin Rhodes, Outsider Art, spontaneous Alternatives, London, 2000
- Lucienne Peiry, Art brut: The Origins of Outsider Art, Paris, 2001
- Michael Krajewski, Jean Dubuffet. Studien zu seinem Fruehwerk und zur Vorgeschichte des Art brut, Osnabrueck, 2004
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