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Autistic art

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Autistic art

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This article gives specific insight into how Autistic artists perceive art, and art therapy. It brings to light different facets of art therapy and the impact it can have in someone's life.

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.The lead automatically goes into the ins and outs of how autistic artists are perceived and treated in the art community, labeling them as, more often that not, "outsiders." The beginning of this article does a good job in addressing the surface level questions that readers would have when thinking about autistic art/artists. However, the lead itself could go into more concise diction in explaining the key points be covered in the rest of the article.

The body of this article focuses mainly on a short overview providing information about autistic art programs, and how many people with autism have a tendency for attention to detail, which can make them proficient in many areas, not just art. The next sections primarily focuses on defining "Art Therapy" and explaining the uses and benefits of art therapy when it comes to autistic persons.

I believe the body of this article could have gone into greater depth about the research behind the correlation of art therapy and autism, as it is a widely used method. In addition the article takes care to mention several "projects" that outline the success of autistic artists, and the people behind the art (non-profit leaders/teachers) that helped to influence, and guide the artists.

The tone is fairly bias in talking about the benefits of art therapy and the great work done by these artists and the non-profits that support them.

The organizational quality of this article is accomplishes, but there could have been several more sections going into detail about specific artists or other aspects of autism and art therapy. There is an ample amount of sources to be seen, but not as many throughout the actual article which could have provided additional insight. There is also a problem with the actual wiki links within the sources, as many of them do not seem to work very well. There is however, a nice section titled "See Also," which gives links and sources of additional information that readers may want to explore.

The images used within this article are few and far between, If there had been more emphasis on showing art work done by people on the spectrum, it would have created a better understanding and mental picture for readers.

This article is rated C-class, Start-class and High-importance, several people have taken the time to fix several of the links, and try to improve the article. However, this article is not formatted the best, and could use some expertise on more in depth concepts concerning autism in art. overall the article is not horrible but it can definitely use lots of improvement.