Outsider Art ( brut art ) Movement

• The term Outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972
• English synonym for art brut = Raw art or rough art
• Look " outside" the traditions of high culture of inspiration
• to include certain self-taught or naive art makers who were never institutionalized 
• outsider art illustrates extreme mental states , unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.
• not immune drom mental illness and may also be institutionalized
• emphasis on the rejection of established values within the modernist art milieu
• involved a dramatic movement away from cultural forms of past

Tarcisio Merati

Tarcisio Merati (27 May 1934 - 22 october 1995)
also known as " cocconlone" , was an Italian outsider artiest. He spent much of his adult life, including most of his artistically productive years, in a psychiatric hospital.
He produced a large quantity of drawings, texts and musical compositions. He is best known for his drawing of "dream toys".