SOLD. Drawings by Outsider Yvon Benoit (Ottawa, Canada).
Yvon Benoit (Montreal Canada), ‘Untitled’, Original Artwork (not digital prints) Graphite on paper.
5.5 x 7 inches, 2008, SOLD
& 4.5 x 6 inches. SOLD
Artist Statement:
“Birth in 1955 in a popular district of Montreal.
The winter in the city and the summer in the country until the move in suburb.
Four continents, deserts of rocks, of sand, of ice, mountains, forests, oceans, cities, mega-cities, villages, hamlets.
More than thirty years now, I continue to fill my backpack with the life and did always continue to draw. The paper table mats darkened
by my scrawls became finely-worked high quality papers that I accumulate in a corner. What to do with these thousand and one stories?
To show them is one of the answers”. Yvon Benoit Nov. 2006
What is Outsider Art:
Outsider Art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], “raw art” or “rough art”), a label created by French artistJean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, using as examples psychiatric hospital patients and children.
Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category; an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1993, and there are at least two regularly published journals dedicated to the subject. The term is sometimes misapplied as a catch-all marketing label for art created by people who 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.