“Maud was not a person who travelled to other galleries or saw other art, so there’s a kind of naivete to it,” said Nancy Noble, director of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
Golly, but critical (or gallerist) condescension towards outsider artists bothers me. The would-be avant-garde artists churned out by MFA mills spend thousands of dollars to learn to mime unencumbered originalty, but when a genuine article comes along, she’s “naive.”
