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A visionary environment or fantasy world is a large artistic installation, often on the scale of a building or

sculpture park A sculpture garden or sculpture park is an outdoor garden or park which includes the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works in durable materials in landscaping, landscaped surroundings. A sculpture garden may be privat ...

s, intended to express a vision of its creator. The subjective and personal nature of these projects often implies a marginal status for the artists involved, and there is a strong association between visionary environments and

outsider art Outsider art is art made by self-taught or supposedly naïve artists with typically little or no contact with the conventions of the art worlds. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrate ...

List of visionary environments

* Jim Bishop:

Bishop Castle Bishop Castle is an "elaborate and intricate" "one-man project" named after its constructor, Jim Bishop, that has become a roadside attraction in central Colorado. The "castle" is located in south central Colorado on State Highway 165 in the ...

(US) *

Aw Boon Haw Aw Boon-Haw (; 1882 in Rangoon, British Raj – 1954 in Hawaii), OBE, was a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as founder of Tiger Balm. He was a son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin, with his ancestral home in Yongding C ...

(胡文虎) (sponsor/concept):

Haw Par Villa Haw Par Villa () is a theme park located along Pasir Panjang Road in Singapore. The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese mythology, folklore, legends, history, and illustrations of various as ...

(Singapore),

Tiger Balm Garden Tiger Balm Gardens are public gardens that existed or continue to exist in three East Asia locations. They are also known as Haw Par Villa gardens. All three Tiger Balm Garden locations were built by the Aw family (Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par). T ...

(Hong Kong) * Johann Michael Bossard: Kunststätte Bossard (Germany) * Peter Camani: Midlothian Castle ( Screaming Heads) (Canada) *

Ferdinand Cheval Ferdinand Cheval (19 April 1836 – 19 August 1924), often nicknamed Facteur Cheval ("Mail Carrier Cheval") was a French mail carrier who spent 33 years building Le Palais idéal (the "Ideal Palace") in Hauterives, in southeastern France.

: Le Palais idéal (France) *

Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the s ...

: Chapelle Saint-Pierre à Villefranche-sur-Mer, Chapelle Sainte-Blaise des Simples de Milly-la-Forêt (France) * María Ángeles Fernández Cuesta: Arguedas, Navarre environment (Spain) * Samuel P. Dinsmoor: Garden of Eden (US) *

Lluís Domènech i Montaner Lluís Domènech i Montaner (; 21 December 1850 – 27 December 1923) was a Spanish architect who was highly influential on '' Modernisme català'', the Catalan Art Nouveau/Jugendstil movement. He was also a Catalan politician. Born in Barcelo ...

Palau de la Música Catalana Palau de la Música Catalana (, en, Palace of Catalan Music) is a concert hall in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed in the Catalan '' modernista'' style by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1908 for ...

(Spain) * Kevin Duffy: Rectory Garden Centre, Tudor Village (UK)
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Howard Finster Howard Finster (December 2, 1916 – October 22, 2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Garden, a folk art scul ...

: Paradise Garden (US) * Tom Every: Forevertron (US) * Robert Garcet ( French Wikipedia article): Tour d'Eben-Ezer ( French Wikipedia article) (Belgium) * Antoni Gaudí:

Park Güell Parc Güell ( ca, Parc Güell ; es, Parque Güell) is a privatized park system composed of gardens and architectural elements located on Carmel Hill, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Carmel Hill belongs to the mountain range of Collserola – t ...

Sagrada Família The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, shortened as the Sagrada Família, is an unfinished church in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Designed by ...

Casa Batlló () is a building in the center of Barcelona. It was designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after th ...

Casa Milà Casa Milà (, ), popularly known as ''La Pedrera'' (, ; "the stone quarry") in reference to its unconventional rough-hewn appearance, is a '' Modernista'' building in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was the last private residence designed by arc ...

Casa Vicens Casa Vicens () is a modernist building situated in the Gràcia neighbourhood of Barcelona. It is the work of architect Antoni Gaudí and is considered to be his first major project. It was built between 1883 and 1885, although Gaudí drew up the ...

(Spain) * Randy Gilson:

Randyland Randyland is an art museum located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is widely regarded as one of America's most colorful public art landmarks. Randy Gilson is the creator of this museum, which dedicates to his outsider art. Randyland has played ...

(US) *

Manfred Gnädinger Manfred Gnädinger (1936 in Boehringen, Germany – 28 December 2002, in Camelle, Spain) a.k.a. ''Man'' or ''O Alemán'' was a German hermit and sculptor who lived in the village of Camelle, on the Costa da Morte, in Galicia (Spain). He s ...

: The Museum of the German (Spain) * Annie Hooper: Bible Stories (US) *

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

: Hundertwasserhaus (Austria), Quixote Winery (California), Waldspirale, Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg ( German Wikipedia article) (Germany) * Raymond Isidore: Maison Picassiette (:fr:Maison Picassiette, French Wikipedia article) (France) * Mollie Jenson: Art Exhibit (US) * Karl Junker (:de:Karl Junker, German Wikipedia article): Junkerhaus (:de:Junkerhaus, German Wikipedia article) (Germany) * Sergei Kirillov (С.И.Кириллов): Kirillov's house (Russia) * Leonard Knight: Salvation Mountain (US) * George Paul Kornegay, near Brent, Alabama (US) * Chalermchai Kositpipat (เฉลิมชัย โฆษิตพิพัฒน์): Wat Rong Khun (Thailand) * Bill Lishman
Underground house
(Canada) * Helen Martins: The Owl House (museum), The Owl House (South Africa) * Đặng Việt Nga: Hằng Nga Guesthouse (Vietnam) * Mary Nohl Art Environment (US) * Eddie Owens Martin: Pasaquan (US) * Pirro Ligorio: Gardens of Bomarzo (Italy) * Tressa Prisbrey: Bottle Village (US) * Simon Rodia: Watts Towers (US) * Nek Chand, Nek Chand Saini (नेक चंद सैणी): Rock Garden of Chandigarh (India) * Niki de Saint Phalle: Tarot Garden, The Garden of Tarot (Italy) * Jules Senis: Jardin Rosa Mir (:fr:Jardin Rosa Mir, French Wikipedia article) (France) * Vollis Simpson: Windmill Park (US) * Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat, Bunleua Sulilat (บุญเหลือ สุรีรัตน์): Buddha Park (Laos), Sala Keoku (Thailand) * Robert Tatin (:fr:Robert Tatin, French Wikipedia article): Musée Robert Tatin (France) * Kea Tawana: Ark (US) * Billy Tripp: The Mindfield (US) * Lek Viriyaphant (เล็ก วิริยะพันธุ์) (sponsor/concept): Sanctuary of Truth, Erawan Museum, Ancient Siam (Thailand) * Jacques Warminski: L’Hélice terrestre (France)
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* Bruno Weber: Bruno Weber Park (Switzerland) * Isaiah Zagar: Philadelphia's Magic Gardens (US) * ''various artists'': The Albany Bulb (US)

References

*John Maizels, Deidi von Schaewen (photo), Angelika Taschen (ed.), ''Fantasy Worlds'', Taschen (2007) *John Maizels (ed.), ''Raw Vision Outsider Art Sourcebook'', Raw Vision Ltd (2002) *John Beardsley, ''Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists'', Abbeville Press (1995) *Roger Manley, Mark Sloan, Jonathan Williams, Ted Degener (photo), Marcus Schubert (photo), John Blumb (photo), Ron Byers (photo), ''Self-Made Worlds'', Aperture (2005) *Leslie Umberger, Erika Doss, Ruth Kohler, Lisa Stone, ''Sublime Spaces and Visionary Worlds: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists'', Princeton Architectural Press (2007)

External links

SpacesArchives.org website Outsider Environments blogspot Shrines.tv website
Visionary environments, 01 Visual arts genres Installation art Naïve art Outsider art Architectural history Landscape design history

List of visionary environments

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