What do you understand by the terms ‘outsider art’ and ‘art brut’ or ‘raw art’?
(i) Outsiders art' refers to those art who have no right to be artists as they have received no formal training yet show talent and artistic insight 'Art brut' or 'raw art are the works of art in their raw state as regards cultural and artistic influences. (ii) The "untutored genius" who created "paradise" was Nek Chand, an 80- year old creator-director who made the world famous rock garden at Chandigarh. His was an 'outsider art' in which he sculpted with stone and recycled materials He used anything and everything from a tin to a sink to a broken down car to form an artistic piece. One of his famous creations are Women by the Waterfall.
