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Folk Art EnvironmentsWhat exactly are folk art environments, anyway? Besides being weird tourist attractions, that is. Well, I guess a simple explanation would be they are buildings or sculpture gardens created by visionary artists. Now these people don’t necessarily think of themselves as artists. They have a passion and they need to build. They may have a skill, like say wood-working, but they are self-taught artists and are usually obsessive about creating their own special environment.
Folk art environments can be a funky house, a decorated yard. They can be a mountain of paint or a huge collection of something. Like hubcaps. They can be acres covered with huge sculptures or a small front yard jam-packed with lawn ornaments.
There’s outsider art environments. And visionary art environments. They’re also called sculpture gardens. And rock gardens. And
The House on the Rock.
There’s the
Whirligig Farm
and the Funny Farm. Salvation Mountain and
Thunder Mountain.
The names are as eclectic as the environments themselves. So keep your eyes peeled when you’re out on the road. There are folk art environments everywhere!
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