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Self-built mound covered in messages of God's love
At 150 feet wide by 50 feet tall, Salvation Mountain is really more of a painted mound. The mountain was created by Leonard Knight after his hot air balloon failed in this bleak patch of desert... »
Outsider Art, Architectural Oddities, Outsider Architecture | Edited by Dylan, Clinton and 3 others
Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates
A carpenter and gardener by trade, Romano Gabriel spent nearly three decades crafting hundreds of objects from packing crates that he used to fill the front yard of his Pine Street home in... »
Museums and Collections, Outsider Art | Edited by tonkatruk and Nicholas Jackson
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures tucked into a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood
Trundle Manor looks, from the outside, like any other house in the neighborhood of Swissvale near Pittsburgh - except for the coffin on the porch. But the inside is filled with a wide assortment... »
Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Outsider Art, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Miniatures, Memento Mori, Purveyors of Curiosities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by VonMinx and Nicholas Jackson
Home of Man Sculpted by Antarctica. It has sculpture and penguins, but no plants
Part of the Australian Antarctic Division, the Antacrtic Sculpture Garden was built in th Summer 2002-2003 season by Stephen Eastaugh under a grant from the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship.... »
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Gigantic mosaic sculptures representing tarot cards fill a garden in Tuscany
Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle on October 29, 1930, was a French sculptor and film maker.
In 1978, she began work on a series of 21 large-scale sculptures... »
Outsider Art | Edited by Bswanson and Dylan
Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias
With dreams of reforming and perfecting the universe, Argentine artist Xul Solar invented two languages, a spiritual form of chess, a modified piano, and painted works based on his own blend of... »
Museums and Collections, Outsider Art | Edited by allison and Dylan
"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer
Deep in the hills of Austria lies Franz Gsellmann's Weltmaschine (World Machine). With no formal mechanical or artistic training, Gsellmann spent the last 23 years of his life creating a behemoth... »
Outsider Art, Inspired Inventions | Edited by Dylan, Henry and others
A sculpture made of ten cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.
Cadillac ranch, built in 1974, is the product of eccentric helium millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 (he doesn't like the Roman numeral III) and The Ant Farm, a San Francisco art collective. The ranch... »
Outsider Art, Unusual Monuments, Outsider Architecture | Edited by FungusFan and Dylan
