Meanings
nounoutsider artist (plural outsider artists)
plural outsider artists
- An untrained artist who works outside of the mainstream.
What exactly is an outsider artist — who typically works in isolation without training and very little exposure to art — when the phenomenon is increasingly embraced by major galleries and museums and its greatest talents have entered the canon?
2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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