Outsider art influence

I've been watching 'Journeys Into The Outside with Jarvis Cocker', a tv series presented by Jarvis Cocker where he visits various countries such as France and USA to experience the outsider art in the countries. I particularly like the French man who covered his whole how is broken crockery and shells.



Some consider outsider art to be  'art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, such as psychiatric hospital patients and children.'

But also 'the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or naïve art makers who were never institutionalized. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions.'

I am using Outsider Art as my influence because these women who aren't represented are possibly seen as outsiders to to the glamorous media. It's a good way to express our feelings of neglect through outsider art because a lot of outsider art is never found (possibly found after death) and that could represent that their voices will never particularly be heard.

Here are a few of my favourite outsider art pieces.





I love how raw and bad these pieces are, they are alive and have a presence which classically trained artists cannot emulate!