Figurative Art
Dutch artist Roy Wenzel (1959– ) was diagnosed at age 11. His art is that of excess, with highly assertive and gestural images.
Christophe Pillault and Donna Williams focus on figurative works with an emphasis on movement. Both artists feature in the award-winning book ARTism by Bernice Pelletier and Karen Simmons and published by Autism Today. Christophe Pillault paints with his hands. His works were featured in the book Art of the Mind published by the M.I.N.D Institute.
Mark Rimland is a self-taught American whose drawings and paintings are often figurative and feature people and cats. The son of autism pioneer Bernard Rimland, Mark was featured in the documentary Lifting The Fog; A Look Into The Mysteries of Autism, in ARTism and illustrated the book The Secret Night World Of Cats, published by Smith and Kraus.
Alonzo Clemons and Donna Williams are autistic sculptors, both figurative artists.
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“Church neglect
And figurative use have pretty well
Reduced him to a shadow of himself.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational—an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)