Antoni Gaudi

• Spanish architect
• Associated with expressionist architecture and art nouveau
• Created the Church of the Sagrada Familia
• Comissioned by a wealthy family
• Eventually became municipal
• Updated gothic cathedral
• Classically trained
• Wanted to make something organic and to move away modern form
• Trained in yet wanted to move away from Bozart syle

Edward James

• British arcitect
• Edward James was influenced by surealsim especially anthropological surealists
• Influenced by Sal Dhali and paranoid critical method
• Bought some land in a tropical like jungle in Mexico where he built a palace
• Architect with traditional training
• Considered yet questionably mainstream

Nikki de St. Phalle

• Tarot Garden
• Associated with new realism
• Rejecting mainstream traditions, also participitory
• She made no profit off her garden
• Created a psychedelic garden with giant towers
• Made giant woman figures you could walk in
• Tarot Garden allows her to work out personal demons and depression
• Each character is a card of the Tarot

Bruno Weber

• Not sure if he is an inspired insider or a ligit outsider
• Swiss
• Had plenty of formal art training
• His teacher taught him yoga and Budhism
• Nineteen sixty two created a home which eventually became a park
• The goal is for it to become an actual attraction
• Financed by himself
• No religiously motivated just wanted to do it

Keith Haring

• Well known graffiti artist
• Used graffiti style to create signs, allows one to read the painting
• You read his work
• Admired Finster
• Founded "Act Up"
• Activist artist

Fredensreich Hundertwasser

• Painter who became interested with architecture
• Became an activist to create architecture that is in harmony with nature
• Wrote moldiness manafesto
• Advocated natural forms of decay as appropiate environments
• Designed as a public housing project
• The design was to rejuvenate people's spirits
• Meant to be playful and whismical like a child
• Had to compromise his idea

Robert Tatin

• First worked in the circus, was in WWII, and was trained in ceramics
• Was trained artist
• French

James Hampton

• Washington D.C. artist
• Night time janitor
• Had a hidden passion/vision to collect objects and constructed his throne
• Used tin foil and random foils to make his collection
• Wrote about his work on a text panel, it is coded (like spirit script, but more systematic)
• Professionals are working on desyphering it

Philadelphia Wireman

• Nineteen eighty two, Philadelphia- bags on street are found to have a bunch of wire sculptures
• Discovered by an art student who passed it to (John?) Ollman
• Believed to be a black artist

Simon Rodia

• Made Watts Towers (giant)
• Decorated with whatever he found
• He is Italian
• Looks like Disney Land
• Considered more sculptures arcitecture
• Bent all the metal by hand

Clarence Schmidt

• House of Mirrors
• Former stone mason
• Started with small house and over time kept adding more rooms
• Religiously inspired
• Durned down twice
• Nighbors hated it
• Photographed by Seymore Rosen

Tressa "Grandma" Prisbey

• Bottle Village
• Twenty two buildings total
• Opened to visitors for twenty five cents
• Collection of seventeen thousand pencils
• Got bottles from city dump
• Over ten thousand bottles
• Keeps turkey farm's smell out

J.P. Dinsmoor

• Garden of Eden
• Civil War soldier
• Wasn't well liked at first
• Labor personified and its persecutors
• At age eighty he remarried to a twenty year old and had two more kids
• Died at age eighty nine

Fred Smith

• Lumberjack
• Retired and built the park
• German family
• Had unlimited access to Rhinelander beer bottles
• Tells stories of Frontier settlement, Native American, etc...

Art nouveau

• Reaction to fine art decorative art and applied arts
• Emerged in at the turn on the of twentieth century
• Reaction to cold industrailized environment
• Anti geometric

Surealism

• Above the real
• Come from beyond physical reality
• Many outsider artists had sureal encounts
• Inspired by DADA
• Against emperical reasoning
• If you remove the logical you get the illogical

Jean Dubuffet

• Very influencial and mainstream
• Very important in bringing attention to l'art brut
• Emulated style in his own work
• Created environment art outside of Paris
• Rejected inorganic straight lines

Achilles Rizzoli

• Compulsively drew pictures of building

Thornton Dial

• 1 of 12 childern, poor, no father
• Married but wife has passed away
• Met Lonnie Holly who introduced him to Bill Arnet
• Arnet instantly took to Dial
• Compared to every famous artist
• Started off with tiger motifs
• His art always has a moral
• Would create to relax
• Originally did found art, until Arnet started teaching Dial and giving supplies