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Sanford Schwartz writes: ‘The American Folk Art Museum has given us definitive shows of such masters of the private as Martín Ramírez, Henry Darger, and Adolf Wölfli.* Two years ago, to take another significant example, there was an overdue examination of Jean Dubuffet’s pioneering project, begun in the 1940s, of collecting the work of these artists, which he called “art brut.” And recently the museum again expanded our sense of outsider art—a term that the curators there seem to use sparingly, preferring “self-taught art and art brut”—with separate but concurrent shows of Eugen Gabritschevsky (1893–1979) and Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974).’ Pictured is Gabritschevsky’s “Untitled,” gouache on paper, 8 1/4 x 11 5/8 inches, 1942.

by Brendan Lemon | 10/24/17 | Leave a comment |