Outsider art is art made by self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds.
Adolf Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910
Anna Zemánková, No title, 1960s
View inside the Collection de l'art brut museum, Lausanne
Image: Joe Minter's African Village In America 1
The art world comprises everyone involved in producing, commissioning, presenting, preserving, promoting, chronicling, criticizing, buying and selling fine art. It is recognized that there are many art worlds, defined either by location or alternative definitions of fine art. Some may use the singular art world to refer only to the elite level of globalized fine art. The art world(s) are continually changing in response both to the creativity of those that create art and in response to social change.
Preview of works for auction by Christie's Hong Kong, May 2019
The Microcosm of London (1808), an engraving of Christie's auction room