They Hate Me For The Way Im Always Worried That Theyr Mad At Me

they hate me for the way im always worried that theyr mad at me

The term ‘art brut’ or, in English, naive/outsider art, is a little patronizing. There’s no difference between Van Gogh and the art brut people besides good publicity/the presence of a dedicated art dealer brother and his wife. But oh shit did I love the art brut museum. These artists made art even when they were forbidden to do so. Children from occupied Algeria forced to work as maids in French soldiers’ homes made unspeakably gorgeous paintings. Inmates in psychiatric hospitals, denied paint, literally scratched sculptures into walls with broken spoons. Autistic soldiers drew on military surplus fabric. Women experienced erotic mania and devoted their lives to their loves— opera, spiritualism, the prince of Austria, and painting. Bedridden people churned out exquisite technical drawings without any kind of ‘art education.’ Men who could not read instead used letters and paragraphs as abstract designs, with no symbolic value except as a gestalt whole. People will make art literally no matter what.

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