Talk:Visionary art

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[edit] Very Sad

Theres a lot of vandalism on this page. I notice for intstance someone has removed the hyperlinks from several websites, including The Visionary Revue and Lila.info. These have been restored.

The spirit of visionary art is cooperation and co-support, not suppression or slander. Nor should the wikipedia entry be used for too much self promotion. For instance, a group calling themselves Multimedia Layerists put themselves at the top of the networks and organisations entry. Of course its fine to put ones project in, but right at the top ? Hows about a bit of humility ?

I recently had a mentions of myself and the Lila project (the author of most of the content on this page) removed, which I feel is unfair. I am not using this page to self promote, but it happens that my website is one of the largest repositories of visionary art theory and interviews with visionary artists on the internet. I have also contributed work to several visionary art journals. This just happens to be how it is, and a mention of the Lila project and my work is fair enough, because I use it primarily to promote other artists.

So anyone modifying this page I ask, lets cultivate respect and integrity...

Danielmirante 18:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)daniel mirante18:57, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


[edit] choice of art used

the Klarwein painting used to represent visoinary art at the top of the entry also gets used at the top of the Psychedelic art entry. seems a little redundant to have this in both entries. certainly a great piece of art, though. preferably, we could have some art, that, while visionary, most people *wouldn't* qualify as psychedelic. (Ernst Fuchs, for example.) ***Ria777 15:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


looks like its been done, great choice of work too...

[edit] Redirect to outsider art

Can this redirect to outsider art, with a discussion of the subtle differences in terms (while they describe the same art, basically, the difference is in emphasis), or does "visionary art" really have enough to say about itself as a category? I'd think seriously about making it a redirect. Philthecow 23:24, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

I've made a redirect, it was removed without comment. Please explain why you'd like this to stay if you want to remove this redirect, oh person who does this. - brenneman(t)(c) 05:20, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

How about we not do that, mmkay? These are fairly different things. Backed out redirect and added comment about how some people lump them together and added a link. 64.236.128.14 19:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

see below for an explanation of how the two fields of art (visionary and outsider) differ. ***Ria777 15:08, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Visionary versus Outsider Art

I hate to delete someone else's work, but this page starts with what, for me, is a completely false assertion:

"Visionary art is art produced by self-taught individuals, usually without formal training, whose works arise from an innate personal vision that revels foremost in the creative act itself."

You only need to look at the work of the visionary artists cited as examples; H. R. Giger, Alex Grey, Mati Klarwein, to realise that this is plain untrue.

The author seems to be referring to a very American specific subgenre of visionary art and seems to be promoting a particularly narrow view of what visionary art is - taken from this site: http://www.avam.org/stuff/whatsvis.html

Take a look at the wide range of art at the society for art of imagination ( http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/MemberArt.html - does this look like it has been done by self taught individuals, without formal training?

The comments may, perhaps, to relate validly to 'outsider art', but are certainly not true of 'visionary art' in the broader sense.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by PhilStein (talk • contribs) 08:26, March 7, 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps the writer was only familiar with that sphere of visionary art, but yes, it is not exclusive to untrained artists. >>sparkit|TALK<< 05:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

I have removed all external links from this article relating to Example Artists. I think that going by Notariety, it can be safely assumed that one must be meritorious of an article in order to be included. Otherwise it bears the potential of being a link farm. ℬastique▼parℓer♥voir♑ 17:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree that external links to the (non-wiki) artists should be removed --74.102.208.209 17:14, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I respectfully disagree, such an outlook strikes me as elitist. In this formative period of Wikipedia there are many great artists, new and mature, who have not yet been 'enshrined' in wiki articles. The musician Iasos has had a beautiful Visionary Artist gallery on his web site for years, filled with artists who have earned a place in that pantheon,(with the possible exception of myself, although I admittedly barely register on the VisArt meter he likes my work), so I have offered his gallery link to the mix on the strength of the work shown. I agree that a huge number of artist web page links could be unweildy however a good collection, of managable size, of artists on one site serves as a 'window' to Visionary talent out there. Don Davis

Standards should be kept, in my opinion. That inevitably means excluding artists. Bus stop 04:16, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but whose? I urge a look at the artists in the 'visionary artists gallery' link, some of whom have been in the business for over 20 years, to evaluate their qualifications to be listed as 'Visionary Artists' on the basis of their work. These are examples of the San Francisco Bay Area 'school' of Visionary Art, examples of which appeared for years in the 'Illuminarium' gallery in Marin. Don

Wikipedia's standards. That means (to me) artists who have articles on Wikipedia. If they have articles on Wikipedia, that pretty much means that they have met Wikipedia standards. Bus stop 06:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

This sounds like a 'catch 22' reply, with all due respect. BTW, At least two of the visionary artists in the Iasos gallery have Wiki articles, but I haven't checked them all. If someone were to add wiki articles about the others would that elevate their arbitrarily defined status or would a decent percentage of them be sufficent? What do you think of the art so referenced, within the context of 'Visionary Art'? That should be the primary factor. Don

[edit] Self-promoting artists

The example artists listed are extremely well known, recognised masters of their craft and strongly allied with the visionary art theme of this wiki. Several people have been coming to these pages and adding themselves to the list of visionary artists, without being humble and recognising that they do not have the widespread acknowledgement but are rather 'up and coming' or in the development phase as artists.

[edit] Brigid Marlin

Someone keeps moving Brigid to the 'emerging artists' section. Brigid is an 'old master', quite literally. Not only is she in the National Portrait Gally, she is ther founder the Society for Art of Imagination, she holds regular classes on visionary art, produces a visionary art magazine, and was Ernst Fuchs' apprentice. In other words, she is highly renowned and VERY WELL RECOGNISED as a visionary artist.

Please stop moving her name !

[edit] J S Hill Added

I thought I'd add the name as I think he deserves a place in this article.