1. Artist after artist depicted the Garden of Eden as if pointing to the imperiled innocence of the outsider artist. 2. At times Ms. Stern seems less an outsider artist than an extremely astute assimilator of everything she might ever have seen, Pac Man included. 3. At times, anime figures look strikingly like the sexualized children created by the Chicago outsider artist Henry Darger. 4. Flying saucers came to figure heavily in the work of outsider artists like Alexander Maldonando and the Rev. Howard Finster. 5. Indeed, he may be the biggest star among outsider artists. 6. The lives of outsider artists, moreover, are frog-prince parables. 7. The outsider artist has not suffered the deforming influence of art school, and his art requires no esoteric explanation from critics. 8. There will be an unusually large number of museum shows devoted to women and minority artists, to outsider artists and to non-Western art. 9. To Chadwick, they are both essentially self-educated outsider artists who revolutionized their fields and remained profoundly Southern in the process. |