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10/27/2007: "Outsiders, uncommercialized, represent last truthful art"

Outsider art is art that sits outside any known idiom. It is art created from an entirely new language. It is not for sale. And it is marked by obsession.

To some who are weary of the increasing commercialisation of art, outsider works are unpolished jewels, and the people who make them are the purest artists of all.

[ I don't know if this newspaper reporter noticed and couldn't talk about it, but the "art" our society endorses sucks. It's either populist trash from Hollywood, or weird and useless art objects from a snooty and detached art community. Die Hard 4, or Piss Christ? Outsider art doesn't bow to commercial or populist demands. ]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7062698.stm