Author(s): Anja Brunt

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'Outsider art' is a collective term used to describe authentic works of art produced by off-beat artists who listen only to the voices within themselves. They do not consider the art of the past, they have no formal artistic training, and some of them are resident in psychiatric institutions. Their creativity has developed outside the framework of the mainstream art world and is largely ignored by it. Work of this kind has traditionally been disregarded and treated as 'not real art' but in recent decades this has started to change. Increasingly, works of art produced by 'outsiders' are now being shown at major venues like MoMA New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and last year's Venice Biennale. The task of this game is to collect two cards that make one set: in this case, two sets of the same artist. The cards can be easily recognised by the explicit style of the contributors.