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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
all you end up with if you do this is pure navel-gazing art, which is EASY, boring, and pointless.
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I think it all depends on what you like. Introspective art can be very interesting. Well at least for me. It's a peek into someones mind.
Also, art obviously needs an audience, but I don't think that an artist necessarily needs to create art with that as the primary intention.
Getting back to Sarra about
Outsider art. I have a friend who works at a home with handicapped people, and one of his patients makes very intriguing stuff. From time to time, visitors bring him old jerseys, socks, scarfs etc, and he unknits everything and rolls up the wool into giant 2 meter wide oval shapes. They sometimes take years to finish. He's extremely passionate, obsessive, systematic and determined once he starts. Amazing to see. No pretension whatsoever. No intention to make art and certainly no plan to exhibit it either.
Brut as can be.
I doubt that his work will ever land up in a gallery. Surely it deserves to be credited as art in some way?