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21yearsofdigging ago

All of this fits into place. I am an artist and much of what you are saying about art brut is true.Art brut is sometimes referred to the U.S. as Outsider Art. Often it is made by people that are never acknowledged as artists and yes, the typical scenario is a man who lives alone, or a woman who is a spinster, has all this hidden art in their attic and much of it references torture as a child or something traumatic