01-04-2014, 01:29 PM
I've got some “outsider art” at home. Outsider art is mainly done by people with mental health problems right up to psychopathic murderers and killers. John Wayne Gacy was a prolific artist in prison and some of his paintings were sold for hefty sums. Whether its the quality of the paintings or the fame and notoriety of the artist that gets the big bucks is debatable I suppose.
I went to an exhibition of outsider art in London a few years ago and to be honest most of the stuff was way outside my price range. There was one guy an ex prisoner who had acute schizophrenia and I bought one of his mounted charcoal drawings of lucifer with his broken wings posing like Rodans The Thinker. I talked to the guy and he said his art was better therapy than talking to a headshrinker which is interesting.
I went to an exhibition of outsider art in London a few years ago and to be honest most of the stuff was way outside my price range. There was one guy an ex prisoner who had acute schizophrenia and I bought one of his mounted charcoal drawings of lucifer with his broken wings posing like Rodans The Thinker. I talked to the guy and he said his art was better therapy than talking to a headshrinker which is interesting.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.