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  • Boeeuen Choo: Spiritual Art

    Boeeuen Choo: Spiritual Art

    This Artist Showcase comes from Boeeuen Choo, who is inspired by the design and template of original tarot cards.

    The Queen
    The Queen

    I always have been drawing – ever since I was young. And then I decided to pursue art as my career. My interest is in the design and template of original tarot cards, and that’s what made me decide to turn my drawings into versions of tarot cards – although some titles are made up and do not exist in the original tarot form.

    The Stranger
    The Stranger

    Initially, I decide what title I’m going to work from, and then I’ll draw something from my imagination that connects with that title. I believe that being in a different country to my family, friends and culture really influenced my work. I was originally born in South Korea and I moved to the US when I was fifteen years old. I was young and alone in another country, with my family back in Korea. I think this experience influenced my view on everything, including art.

    The Dystopia
    The Dystopia

    I hope that my work evokes emotion from the viewer. My goal is for the viewer to interpret the piece in their own way, as if they were looking in mirror.

    The World
    The World

    If I were to choose a term other than Outsider Art, I think I would choose ‘spiritual art’. I think this term more accurately describes what I do. I like to work on different things at the same time, and more recently, I have been concentrating on pattern work.

    Click here to see more of Boeeuen’s work

    The Tower
    The Tower
    The Fool
    The Fool
  • Fleury-Joseph Crepin (1875 – 1948)

    Fleury-Joseph Crepin (1875 – 1948)

    Crepin was a plumper from the port of Calais in France. He only began painting in his sixties, after experiencing an increase in his spiritual powers subsequent to meeting painter and medium Victor Simon. Influenced by supernatural voices, Crepin began to fill sketchbooks with dedicatedly symmetrical designs. Crepin’s works are surprisingly mathematical in their creation. He would create his paintings by enlarging sketches onto canvas using a compass and a ruler. Crepin’s hypnotic works are generally based on architectural forms and geometric patterns to which he added human figures and animals. Convinced of his ability to end wars, Crepin believed that the Second World War would end on the completion of his 300th painting; something which by chance did in fact happen.  Jean Dubuffet, who coined the term Art Brut, believed Crepin to be an ‘anti-natural’ artist and was thoroughly intrigued by these spiritual symmetric pieces. After completing 300 works, Crepin moved on to what he called ‘Tableux merveilleux’ of which he completed 45 before his death.

     

    See some examples of Crepin’s work below:

     

    Places to see the work of Crepin:

    abcd Collection, Paris

    L’Aracine Collection, Musee d’Art Moderne, Lille Metropole

    Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

    Eternod/Mermod Collection, Lausanne

    Sources:

    Raw Vision’s Outsider Art Sourcebook