Art Brut III

Originally posted on cakeordeathsite:
? Minnie-Evans-Untitled In this third installment in the occasional series Art Brut (for further information please refer to the previous posts Art Brut and Art Brut II) I am concentrating on four extraordinary 20th Century African-American artists from the Southern States of the US.  Each artist concerns and insights are very different from one another, but they do share some of the overriding attributes common to art brut ; notably the urgent necessity to create, an obsessional desire to give shape and form to the inner realms of experience and vision as well as being late… Continue reading Art Brut III

The Wednesday Painting – The Death and Life of Monsieur Sebastian Melmoth: Au Théâtre du Grand Guignol (2001–2003)

Paul Laffoley was an American artist and architect. It is said that he spoke his first word, Constantinople, at age 6 months and that he then remained speechless until he was four years old. Continue reading The Wednesday Painting – The Death and Life of Monsieur Sebastian Melmoth: Au Théâtre du Grand Guignol (2001–2003)