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Outer Art.
February 15, 2005
Amanda posted today about "found art." I was reminded of a book I have at home about "outer art": Outer Art by Florentin Smarandache. The entire book is here in PDF format. I think I picked the book up in a used book store. Maybe it was an MIT library book sale. Whatever the origin, the book is pretty darn funny.
According to this website, outer art is "a movement set up as a protest against, or to ridicule, the random modern art which states that everything is... art!" Smarandache elaborates in his Manifesto. That's right, Manifesto with a capital M. An excerpt:
All negative adjectives are cumulated in the outer-art:
- outrageously execrable, failure art;
- using anti-colors and a-colors;
- naturalist paintings: from wick, spit, urine, feces, any waste matter;
- art by non-educated people and for people who know nothing about art!
- pre-art; not non-art or anti-art, but a-painting, a-sculpture, a-photo, generally "a-art";
- mis-art; a work which is unimpressive to you, reader, is very relevant to me;
- idiotic and stupid art;
- art as a miscarriage;
- art with no value; non-persuasive art done by un-experienced people;
- silly art; discredited, convoluted, anti-quality, unsatisfying, paranoid, controversional work; the worst of the worst! Because nobody cares about art!
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I painted one page with my own... blood... licking from my bleeding nose. It is not a metaphor, but the truth. I suffer from nose bleeding since I was a child, and no doctor could fix it. One told me that this is... good, because my blood is renewing by itself, keeping me... healthy! Then I transformed my anomaly into a... God gift for arts. Thus, I am a natural painter.
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Outer-Artistically unfriendly and regretfully,
Dr. Florentin Smarandache
Exhibitions where he didn't expose:
New York (1954), London (1820), Paris (2020), and many, many others.
An important point: "This is not found art, but converted non-art into art."
According to this website, Smarandache was born in Romania in Eastern Europe in 1954. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Craiova in 1979. In 1988, he sought political asylum in the United States and moved here in 1990. Since 2003, he's been Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico, Gallup Campus. Smarandache's website at the University of New Mexico.
He's known as the leader for the "paradoxism" movement, which is based on an excessive use of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, paradoxes in creation paradoxes. He is a poet, playwright, novelist, writer of prose, tales for children, translator from many languages, experimental painter, philosopher, physicist, mathematician.
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