アメリカに American Visionary Art Museum http://www.avam.org/index.htmlという公立施設がありますが、この施設はどうも、このMixiコミュで取り上げている領域とは異なるもので、その扱うアートの大部分がアウトサイダー アートと言わねばならない内容なのです。
‘ I’m not issuing blame and retribution, but staring at the end of the Second “World War, the international and American fine arts communities have intentionally striven to move the graphic and sculptural arts into the province of total non-objective abstraction and semi-abstract expression-and this backed up years later with minimalism and conceptual theory. This means essentially that for fifty years the world’s de facto fine art power brokers have completely eliminated representational painting, drawing and sculpture from the whole fine art sphere, with a few rare exception-and such as kitsch pop art.
This is all well and good for high society cognoscenti, except for two problems. To begin with, representational art as a voice and language dates back to early Paleolithic Europe, intricate vernacular of visual communication right up to the middle of the twentieth century when, for some unknown reason, it was curtailed. This crucial form of graphic expression will inevitably find other forms of social contact, and will probably eventually eclipse any art mode that suppresses it.’