Lecture

Art Brut: Outsider Artists and Their Unique Creations

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HUM-350: Art brut (outsider art)

Découvrir la Collection de l'Art Brut (musée unique au monde) qui réunit des œuvres de créateurs autodidactes, marginaux et rebelles. Comprendre et percevoir cet art hors-les-normes grâce à des visites d'expositions, des réserves du musée, des projections ...

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This lecture explores the world of Art Brut, focusing on artists who create outside the mainstream, such as psychiatric patients, prisoners, and recluses. The instructor delves into the works of Jean Dubuffet, Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, and Carlo Zinelli, highlighting their unconventional artistic expressions and the significance of their marginality. Through a detailed analysis of their creations, the lecture showcases the distinctive styles and themes present in Art Brut, emphasizing the artists' autonomy and originality in their artistic endeavors.

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Outsider art

Outsider art is art made by self-taught or supposedly naïve artists with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds. The term outsider art was coined in 1972 as the title of a book by art critic Roger Cardinal. It is an English equivalent for art brut (aʁ bʁyt, "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created in the 1940s by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture.

Generative art

Generative art refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an artwork that would otherwise require decisions made directly by the artist. In some cases the human creator may claim that the generative system represents their own artistic idea, and in others that the system takes on the role of the creator.

Algorithmic art

Algorithmic art or algorithm art is art, mostly visual art, in which the design is generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called algorists. Algorithmic art, also known as computer-generated art, is a subset of generative art (generated by an autonomous system) and is related to systems art (influenced by systems theory). Fractal art is an example of algorithmic art. For an image of reasonable size, even the simplest algorithms require too much calculation for manual execution to be practical, and they are thus executed on either a single computer or on a cluster of computers.

Art

Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly throughout history and across cultures. In the Western tradition, the three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Video game art

Video game art is a specialized form of computer art employing video games as the artistic medium. Video game art often involves the use of patched or modified video games or the repurposing of existing games or game structures, however it relies on a broader range of artistic techniques and outcomes than artistic modification and it may also include painting, sculpture, appropriation, in-game intervention and performance, sampling, etc. It may also include the creation of art games either from scratch or by modifying existing games.

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