Detour Art

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About Detour Art

Detour art is a website dedicated to the sheer joy of outsider, folk, visionary, self-taught, vernacular art and environment discoveries found all along the back roads (and side streets) around the world.

I am crazy about this stuff called outsider art, visionary art, art brut, folk art or whatever you want to name it. I think it is a pure root art form, like a visual blues or jazz.

It’s the spirit of both the art and the artists that is so captivating. If you are lucky enough to venture off of the main highways of this country, you can encounter the most amazing folks and environments. People who create just because they have to. Not for recognition, or to satisfy a client, but because it is in them to create. Maybe they have retired and have some time on their hands, or maybe there has been a personal tragedy, or sometimes the Lord has spoken to them, or they had some left over paint, but whatever drives them to create is a pure as it gets.

I wish to honor all those creative souls, and help interested folks, like yourself, learn more about them. Thanks for sharing.

http://www.detourart.com