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outsider art

Sometimes called Art Brut, Outsider art is used to describe art that has a naïve quality, often produced by people who have not trained as artists or commonly associated with the production of art. Children, psychiatric patients and prisoners fall into this category. In 1964 the French artist artist Jean Dubuffet started to collect artworks he considered to be free from societal constraints. This was termed Art Brut (raw art) and in 1948 he founded the Compagnie de L'Art Brut with André Breton. The artist Ben Nicholson discovered the naïve painter Alfred Wallis in St Ives in the 1920s. A retired fisherman, Wallis painted pictures of ships and the town harbour on pieces of driftwood and cardboard.

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