Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was born in Wisconsin on July 31, 1910. He lived in a small house in Milwaukee with his wife Marie, and he worked in a bakery. Between 1954 and 1963 he used his fingers, combs, quills and bakery tools to create hundreds of
explosively colorful semi-abstract landscapes that evoke
primordial soup biology,
Lovecraftian horror,
scifi weirdness and
hellish alien beauty ('Full-Screen View' and its zoomable interface increase the pleasure dramatically). The
12 galleries of paintings at his memorial site are all available for free hi-res download, you can hear him talking about drugs, brain chemistry and visions at the 'Listen' link, and there's currently an
exhibit honoring the centennial of his birth at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
posted by mediareport
on Aug 25, 2010 -
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Southern Folk-Art, Outsider Art & Self-Taught Art • Ginger Young of Chapel Hill, NC who runs this eponymously named art studio, says: "Despite their lack of formal training, these artists have tapped into a powerful wellspring of creativity to render their worlds with passion, pathos, and immediacy." Truly
beautiful,
unfiltered,
vibrant stuff. How could you go wrong with artists named Tubby Brown, Minnie Adkins, Mose Tolliver and Woodie Long? On another note: is this school of thought/art, which comes in and out of vogue every few years, as pure as it seems, or is there an air of exploitation and corniness that comes with fetishizing The Other?
posted by dhoyt
on Oct 17, 2003 -
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