Art brut

Url: http://eng.petersarkozi.com/art-brut/
Photographer: Peter Sarkozi
Location: Csepel Muvek, Budapest, Hungary

Art Brut by Peter Sarkozi

The term  art brut was created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates. While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English version of the 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. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.