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outsider artist

outsider artist noun: an untrained artist who works outside of the mainstream.

Noun

outsider artist (plural outsider artists)

  1. An untrained artist who works outside of the mainstream.
    • What exactly is an outsider artist — who typically works in isolation without training and very little exposure to art — when the phenomenon is increasingly embraced by major galleries and museums and its greatest talents have entered the canon?2022 March 3, Roberta Smith, “The Outsider Art Fair Returns, in Top Form”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of outsider artist

pluraloutsider artists

Questions about outsider artist

What does outsider artist mean?
Outsider artist means an untrained artist who works outside of the mainstream.
What part of speech is outsider artist?
Outsider artist is a noun.
What is the plural of outsider artist?
The plural of outsider artist is outsider artists.

Words near outsider artist in the dictionary

  1. outsidea
  2. outsided
  3. outsideness
  4. outsider
  5. outsider art
  6. outsider artist
  7. outsider artists
  8. outsider music
  9. outsider musician
  10. outsider musicians
  11. outsiderdom

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