primitive contemporary art

Primitive expressionism out of thin air.

Outsider art challenges us, teaches us and alters how we see the world. Seems like something is missing. Primitive art forcing people to confront words and images they normally avoid. You hate being small fry.

sad and happy

How do artists navigate the intersection of survival, identity, and creativity? You will not be alone because human beings are social, silly and lovable animals.

Naive expressionism

Artist ability to make up entire drawings out of thin air and present them as artworks.

Art for art’s sake is dirty really good. Please, do not touch the art. Just keep being you. Jean-Paul Sartre use the term existential to mark a radically first-person approach to history. This reveals a hidden rule of the contemporary art world: only an artist who doesn't want to be an artist is a real artist.

hidden shy art

It's very hard at the start. There is a human tendency to want to assign familiarity to that which is new for us.

The arguments against the reality of Neptune do not wash. The resulting drawings are formally and figuratively in flux, and morph into a different narrative for each of us as a metaphor for the invisible links that bind us across time and space.

quirky happy bunny

Painting examining the inner lives of human beings. Nietzsche actually praised aristocratic values for championing nobility, pride, and self-affirmation rather than values like meekness, humility, and self-sacrifice, which he saw as the basis of what he called slave morality.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Striving for excellence motivates you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If art experts are uninterested in protecting the pictures, they will fend for themselves. And this is what it will look like good art that revealed an aspect of nature normally kept hidden. Bad paintings often struggle to find good solutions to hypothetical problems. Contemporary crazy art websites need to behave more like a real person and less like a faceless internet device.

Folk and Self-Taught Art

Somewhere along the way, I got a bunch of craft paint. Nature over artifice; passion over reason; idealism over reality; nostalgia over progress.

When you do something funny as raw art, you threaten to wreck the painting, make a mockery of your own work. But, that also makes it more of a challenge. Distracted viewers less often recall negative events.

John Currin

Unfettered by traditions of classical training, they define their own rules of their painterly universe, appropriating the freedom to represent things as they perceive or feel them. It also invites visitors to rethink the metrics by which artistic achievement is judged.

Oopogon self portrait with model

Life without art is useless, Folk and Self-Taught Art, singular art. Existentialists point to the subjective meaning that such events hold. If you weren’t able to make judgments on people’s character, you might find yourself dating sketchy people. Examples of fair use include parody, most likely to be found when the work is criticizing the original copyright image upon which it is based.

primitive art

What is outsider art? A practice that is inextricable from thinking about shape and form.

Life without art is useless. If contemporary art is fundamentally a serious activity, is there any room left for wacky ducks and odd-fish artist explaining why art is contagious?

Through its otherworldly paintings, models seem to be morphing into sea creatures, Gustave Bifrons invites viewers to experience the immediacy, intimacy, and unmitigated humanity of his artistic expression.

Odd-fishes like Oopogon paint like their lives depends on it.