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outsider artists

outsider artists is the plural of outsider artist.

Meaning of outsider artist

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

Questions about outsider artists

What is outsider artists the plural of?
Outsider artists is the plural of outsider artist.

Words near outsider artists in the dictionary

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

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