Joanne Greenbaum. Joanne Greenbaum (born 1953, New York, United States) is an artist based in New York.
Greenbaum received her BA in 1975 from Bard College in New York. Art critic John Yau writes of Greenbuam's process: "Working within a smaller surface area, and in her own words, doing 'just one thing' at a time, Greenbaum paints incrementally, adding a new layer upon whatever preceded it. She uses oil and acrylic, as well as magic marker, and doesn’t scrape anything away. In this regard, the paintings are geological, with each layer forming a distinct strata. Annie Leibovitz. Floria Sigismondi. Floria Sigismondi (born 1965) is a Canadian-Italian photographer and director. Life and career[edit] Sigismondi was born in Pescara, Italy. Her parents, Lina and Domenico Sigismondi, were opera singers. Ralph Gibson. Ralph Gibson (born January 16, 1939) is an American art photographer[1] best known for his photographic books.
His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition. Gibson currently lives in New York and travels frequently to Europe and Brazil. Early life and education[edit] Kiyoshi Yamashita. Kiyoshi Yamashita on Ebisubashi Bridge, 1955 Kiyoshi Yamashita (山下 清, Yamashita Kiyoshi (born Seiji Obashi ? , 10 March 1922 – 12 July 1971)) was a Japanese artist.
He is famous for his wanderings throughout Japan, during which he wore only a vest, garnering the nickname "The Naked General". Early life[edit] Scottie Wilson. Scottie Wilson (6 June 1888 – 1972), born Louis Freeman, was a Scottish outsider artist known particularly for his highly detailed style. Starting his artistic career at the age of 44, his work was admired and collected by the likes of Jean Dubuffet and Pablo Picasso and is generally accepted to be in the forefront of 20th century outsider art. Early years[edit] Artistic career[edit] Wesley Willis. Willis gained an enormous cult following in the 1990s, mainly upon the release of Greatest Hits in 1995 on the Alternative Tentacles label. The album was released at the urging of punk rock pioneer Jello Biafra who compiled its tracklist.[2][3] In addition to a large body of solo musical work, Willis fronted his own punk rock band, the Wesley Willis Fiasco.[3] He was also a visual artist long before his forays into music, producing hundreds of intricate, unusual, colored ink-pen drawings,[3] most of them of Chicago streetscapes and CTA buses.[1] Early life and career[edit] Willis was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 31, 1963.
In 1989, Willis began hearing what he called "demons" and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He was institutionalized for two months after his diagnosis. Richard Sharpe Shaver. The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories featuring the "Shaver Mystery" Richard Sharpe Shaver (October 8, 1907 Berwick, Pennsylvania – c. November 1975 Summit, Arkansas) was an American writer and artist. He achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazines (primarily Amazing Stories), in which he claimed that he had had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. The controversy stemmed from the claim by Shaver, and his editor and publisher Ray Palmer, that Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true. Shaver's stories were promoted by Ray Palmer as "The Shaver Mystery".
Judith Scott. Judith Scott (May 1, 1943 – March 15, 2005) was an internationally renowned American fiber artist.
She was a fraternal twin to Joyce Scott, and she was born profoundly deaf, mute, and with Down syndrome.[2] She worked at the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, California. Upbringing[edit] Judith Scott was born in Columbus, Ohio, and spent her first seven and a half years at home with her twin sister and older brothers. Achilles Rizzoli. Martín Ramírez. Martín Ramírez (March 30, 1895 – February 17, 1963) was a self-taught artist who spent most of his adult life institutionalized in California mental hospitals, diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic.
Biography[edit] He was born in 1895. Tarcisio Merati. Tarcisio Merati exposition in Bruxelles Art Brut gallery Tarcisio Merati (27 May 1934 – 22 October 1995), also known as "Coccolone", was an Italian outsider artist. The Owl House. Helen Martins The Owl House is a museum in Nieu-Bethesda, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
The house itself was inherited by a woman named Helen Martins after her parents had died. Helen Martins[edit] Helen Martins was born on 23 December 1897 in Nieu-Bethesda. [citation needed] She was the youngest of six children. Helen was schooled in Graaf-Reinet and later obtained a teaching diploma at the teachers college in Graaf-Reinet (now the police training college). In 1919, Helen Martins moved to the Transvaal where she began teaching. Some time during 1928, Helen returned to Nieu-Bethesda where she stayed for the next 17 years taking care of her elderly parents. After her parents' death she started to transform the house and the garden.
Alexander Lobanov. Alexander Pavlovich Lobanov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Лоба́нов; 30 August 1924 – April, 2003) was a Russian outsider artist known particularly for his detailed self-portraits, noted for their frequent inclusion of guns and for their self-aggrandizing nature. Early years[edit] Born in Mologa in 1924, Lobanov contracted meningitis before five years old and was left deaf and mute.
Paul Gosch. Gösch's "o.T. " (1928). Paul Gösch (30 August 1885 – 22 August 1940), also Goesch or Göschen, was a German artist, architect, lithographer, and designer of the early twentieth century; he was associated with the main elements of German Expressionism.[1][2][3] Beginnings[edit] Madge Gill. Madge Gill (1882–1961), born Maude Ethel Eades, was an English outsider and visionary artist.[1][2] Early years[edit] Artistic works[edit]
Charles Dellschau. Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Prussia – 20 April 1923 Texas) was an American artist of Prussian birth. Life[edit] Dellschau was a butcher by trade who, after his retirement in 1899, filled at least 13 notebooks with drawings, watercolor paintings and collages depicting fantastical airships.[1] He lived and worked in an attic apartment in Houston, Texas. Dellschau's earliest known work is a diary dated 1899, and the latest is an 80-page book dated 1921-1922, giving his career as an artist a 21-year span. His work was in large part a record of the activities of the Sonora Aero Club, of which he was a purported member. Dellschau's writings describe the club as a secret group of flight enthusiasts who met at Sonora, California in the mid-19th century. Henry Darger. André Breton. William Kurelek. Adolf Wölfli. Portrait of Adolf Wölfli Adolf Wölfli (February 29, 1864 – November 6, 1930) (occasionally spelled Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label.
Early life[edit] Wölfli was born in Bern. He was abused both physically and sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of 10. He thereafter grew up in a series of state-run foster homes. Creative works[edit] At some point after his admission Wölfli began to draw. Walter Morgenthaler, a doctor at the Waldau Clinic, took a particular interest in Wölfli's art and his condition, later publishing Ein Geisteskranker als Künstler (A Psychiatric Patient as Artist) in 1921 which first brought Wölfli to the attention of the art world. Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910 "Every Monday morning Wölfli is given a new pencil and two large sheets of unprinted newsprint. General view of the island Neveranger, 1911 Music and audio recordings[edit] 1. 7. 10. 1. 11. Joseph Yoakum. Jean Dubuffet. Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor.
His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. Damien Hirst. Caravaggio. Steven seinberg. Martin Kippenberger. Louise Bourgeois. She is recognized today as the founder of confessional art.[4]
Larry Clark. Keegan McHargue. Zane Lewis. Ryan Trecartin. Rosson Crow. Agathe Snow. Dash Snow. David Hockney. Peter Fischli & David Weiss.