Alter Egos Spidey! Look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

Family Fiction–Arcadia I, 1999–2007 Assemblage Richard Cleaver Family Fiction–Arcadia I, 1999–2007 Assemblage

Family Fiction–Arcadia I, 1999–2007 Richard Cleaver Family Fiction–Arcadia I, 1999–2007 Assemblage “My recent work is based on narratives drawn from personal and historical events that are overlapped with subconscious images. The figures are like actors on a stage, enigmatic yet tense while being enveloped or encrusted within layers of overgrowth concealing a world within.” http://www.baltimoreclayworks.org/whats_happening/gala_artists.html

Collection Richard L. Feigen, New York Joseph Cornell L'Egypte de Mlle Cleo de Merode cours elementaire d'histoire naturelle 1940 Construction 4 11/16 x 10 11/16 x 7 1/4 in. Collection Richard L. Feigen, New York

Joseph Cornell Self taught Made art from preexisting materials Believed that artists renew and transform materials, experiences and ideas to communicate the beauty and magic in ordinary objects http://www.pem.org/cornell/

Trash Can from Paradise Garden Rev. Howard K. Finster Trash Can from Paradise Garden

Rev. Howard K. Finster Self taught Artworks were referred to as “sermons in paint” http://www.jstor.org/view/10739300/sp030037/03x0393c/0

Bessie Harvey COTTON PICKERS 1989 Painted wood, wood putty, fabric, cotton, straw, beads Estate of Bessie Harvey

Bessie Harvey Self taught Used preexisting items such as: shells hair and cloth Incorporated with paint and wood putty "I began to see faces in things, and do the sculptures, and…I could see faces in wall paneling - I could see them everywhere," http://sunsite.utk.edu/bessie/tour1/bio4.html

Visionaries What do these artists have in common? What are some of the things that inspired these artists to create their artwork?