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theparisreview:

“Howard Finster was fixing a bicycle in his Summerville, Ga., workshop one day when a smudge of paint on his index finger took the shape of a face, a face that spoke to him and told him, ‘Paint sacred art.’ Finster, then in his sixties, had been many things in his life—a teenaged tent-revival preacher, a pastor, a mill worker. He had never been an artist, but he had also never been a man to shirk the word of God.

“That was in 1976. The Lord told him to make 5,000 works, a quota he reached just before Christmas 1985. By the time he died in 2001, his catalog had swelled to more than 46,000 pieces. He devised an intricate numbering system and timestamped many of his works upon completion; he often painted through the night, sleeping only intermittently. Sometimes he signed his paintings, ‘BY HOWARD FINSTER, OF GOD. MAN OF VISIONS.’”

—Rachel Maddux, “This Side of Paradise”

192 notes #howard finster #folk art #visionary art

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HUMAN HEADED BLENGINS OF CALVERINE ISLAND CATHERINE ISLES. MALES. VENOMOUS. ONLY THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN CAN COMBACT THESE CREATURES. Henry Darger (1892–1973)ChicagoMid-20th centuryWatercolor, pencil, and carbon tracing on pieced paper19 x 24 in.

HUMAN HEADED BLENGINS OF CALVERINE ISLAND CATHERINE ISLES. MALES. VENOMOUS. ONLY THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN CAN COMBACT THESE CREATURES.

Henry Darger (1892–1973)
Chicago
Mid-20th century
Watercolor, pencil, and carbon tracing on pieced paper
19 x 24 in.

1 notes #darger #outsider art #folk art

Oct1

Yuri Vasnetsov. Ladushki, Russian rhymes and tales for little ones, 1964. Vasnetov was born in Vyatka in 1900, and developed his own peculiar style, less stylized than his colleagues and deeply influenced by traditional Russian popular art. The resulting artworks are both sweet and bold, popular and refined, traditional and eccentric.

Yuri Vasnetsov. Ladushki, Russian rhymes and tales for little ones, 1964.

Vasnetov was born in Vyatka in 1900, and developed his own peculiar style, less stylized than his colleagues and deeply influenced by traditional Russian popular art. The resulting artworks are both sweet and bold, popular and refined, traditional and eccentric.

2 notes #Russian #art #children #folk art

Sep22

Adolf Wölfli, “Amalie-Cleress,” 1908 From “From the Cradle to the Grave” “At the beginning of the twentieth century, Adolf Wölfli, a former farmhand and laborer, produced a monumental, 25,000-page illustrated narrative in Waldau, a mental asylum near Bern, Switzerland. Through a complex web of texts, drawings, collages and musical compositions, Wölfli constructed a new history of his childhood and a glorious future with its own personal mythology. The French Surrealist André Breton described his work as “one of the three or four most important oeuveres of the twentieth century.”

Adolf Wölfli, “Amalie-Cleress,” 1908
From “From the Cradle to the Grave”

“At the beginning of the twentieth century, Adolf Wölfli, a former farmhand and laborer, produced a monumental, 25,000-page illustrated narrative in Waldau, a mental asylum near Bern, Switzerland. Through a complex web of texts, drawings, collages and musical compositions, Wölfli constructed a new history of his childhood and a glorious future with its own personal mythology. The French Surrealist André Breton described his work as “one of the three or four most important oeuveres of the twentieth century.”

2 notes #folk art #adolf wolfli #Religion