SOLD. Outsider Wall Sculpture
Herman Ruhland, Outsider Artist (North Gower, Canada), “Country Totem” 2007, Sculpture, Found Objects / Table Legs, 78″ height x 22″ width x 4″ deep, Titled, signed & dated on verso.
Herman Ruhland, North Gower, Canada
To me art is about freedom, free from the restrains of traditional use of materials,
Free of academic dictations how to do art.
Expressing myself from the heart guided by an desire to understand myself.
Let the subconscious do some work
“ From the heart is the only art”
Herman was born and educated in the Netherlands.
Came to Canada in 1959 always interested in art and design, started a garden design company in 1961 and studied art at the Ottawa school of art for many years.
At present time does painting and sculpturing using different media and found objects.
Lives on a farm near Ottawa.
What is Outsider Art:
Outsider Art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers. Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds.
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aʁ bʁyt], “raw art” or “rough art”), a label created by French artistJean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art scene, using as examples psychiatric hospital patients and children.
Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category; an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1993, and there are at least two regularly published journals dedicated to the subject. The term is sometimes misapplied as a catch-all marketing label for art created by people who are outside the mainstream “art world” or “art gallery system”, regardless of their circumstances or the content of their work. A more specific term, “outsider music“, was later adapted for musicians.