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Petra van Cronenburg @[email protected] · 2026-09-08 · 08:50 UTC

@gutenberg_org In younger years, I was fascinated by the #Voynich manuscript and all these deciphering hypotheses.
But later I did research about #OutsiderArt of mentally ill people of the Wölfli Foundation and #Prinzhorn Collection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art for Prinzhorn: https://www.sammlung-prinzhorn.de/
I saw so many parallels that I ask myself what if it was individual Outsider #Art? Then we'll never decipher it. Because it was perhaps a very individual talk with a mental situation for surviving it.

#voynich #outsiderart #prinzhorn #art

Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-08-29 · 00:07 UTC

"Untitled," Minnie Evans, 1959.

Evans (1892-1987) was a self-taught Black folk artist who didn't begin drawing until she was in her 40s, working at the ticket booth at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, NC.

Inspired by her inner visions, her religious faith, her regard for her ancestors, and her surroundings, she created many intricate images of faces amid flowers and foliage. The faces could be her ancestors, or her version of spiritual guides, or something else altogether.

She once said that her flower paintings were her vision of heaven, dismissing the idea of heaven as white and full of clouds, but instead a joyous garden of rainbow colors.

Her work, which began in the 40s, was in many ways a forerunner to psychedelic art of the 60s and 70s; this would not have been out of place on the wall of a hippie's flat.

From the American Folk Art Museum, New York.

#Art #MinnieEvans #OutsiderArt #VisionaryArt #BlackArtists #WomenArtists #BlackHistory #WomensHistory #AmericanArt #FlowerFriday

#art #minnieevans #outsiderart #visionaryart #blackartists #womenartists

Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-01-16 · 01:21 UTC

"Country Doctor (Night Call)," Horace Pippin, 1935.

I've talked about Pippin (1888-1946) before; he was a self-taught Black American artist who took up art as a sort of therapy after being injured in WWI. He painted scenes of everyday Black American life, and what he lacked in formal training, he made up for with passion, depth, a remarkable eye for design, and a flair for storytelling and depicting people's lives.

Here we have a scene in a wooded area in the midst of a snowstorm....but a man is slowly leading a horse, pulling a wagon, through the storm. It's not just a mere depiction of a winter scene, but a tribute to the resilience and dedication of a rural doctor, trudging through the storm to someone in need.

Pippin's most popular work are his depictions of Black life, many drawn from his childhood. He also did religious paintings and some historical paintings, mostly of his WWI experiences, but also a noted depiction of John Brown going to his execution, based on descriptions from his grandmother, who witnessed it. I find his work delightful.

From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

#Art #HoracePippin #BlackArtists #Primitive #SelfTaught #OutsiderArt #BlackHistory #AmericanArt