From a broken family, rejected and perceived to be wild, unstable and basically a madman his entire life, little would anyone predict that within such a person an incredibly gifted and insightful artist would reside.

An artist with a pure and one-of-a-kind affinity for nature, who would depict wild animals and natural beauty in such a way that it almost creates its own mythology. Immersing the natural world around into a realm of mysticism and wonder. Often considered to be the Vincent Van Gogh of his generation due to his similarly naive, untrained and nature-inspired style and not to mention being tragically misunderstood.

The artist I’m referring to for today’s video is Swiss outsider artist Antonio Ligabue. Living most of his adult life as a wanderer, in and out of many hospitals and mental institutions, historians and art critics would find the strange life and mental instability of Antonio irresistibly fascinating and unfortunately from what I found in my research, this has tainted the meaning and reception of his art over the years. But hopefully in today’s video, we can look at Atonio Ligabue’s art in a different way, in the way it was intended. To see not only his art, but the wider world around us, through the exact same eyes of this fascinating individual.

Today we’ll be exploring the artwork of Antonio Ligabue.

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ARTIST CORNER:

Today I’m excited to share the artwork of an artist who goes by the name of “H”. Please check out more of his work via his Facebook page! -   / thehofthehoftheh  

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VIDEO MUSIC:

1. Drone in D by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

2. Loss by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

3. Healing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...

Artist: http://incompetech.com/

4. I Need to Start Writing Things Down by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/darkglow/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/