Outsider art
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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
Niko Pirosmani, Deer, 1901
Outsider music
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Outsider music is music created by self-taught or naïve musicians. The term is usually applied to musicians who have little or no traditional musical experience, who exhibit childlike qualities in the
Outsider art
…are outside the mainstream "art world" or "art gallery system", regardless of their circumstances or the content of their work. A more specific term, "outsider music", was later adapted for musicians. Interest in the art of the mentally ill, along with that of children and the makers of "peasant art", developed from…
Street performer Larry "Wild Man" Fischer, sometimes cited as the "godfather of outsider music"