User:Onedring101/Found visionary art

It is not known who first coined the term ‘Found Visionary Art’ but it is believed that the first artist to introduce it to the general public was Roger Parrish with his showing of “Found Visions” in an obscure gallery on Magazine St in New Orleans sometime in 2001.

Art which can be called ‘Found Visionary Art’ has its roots in two other genres:

Found art —also referred to as found objects--was originated by Marcel Duchamp in the early 20h century. In all cases a work of Found Art is composed primarily of man made objects.

Visionary art is that art which is not of this world; unlike a landscape or a portrait, it has its origins in the mind or vision of the artist and has no existence until that artist brings it in to being in being in this world. Its main themes are usually spiritual or mystical in nature.

Found Visionary Art is distinct in that its starting point is an object in the real world but not man made; stones, flowers and twigs or branches for example. These objects then become transformed thru the vision of the artist, many of whom say it is as if the object “spoke” to them and the alteration of the original object proceeds from that.