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A visionary environment or fantasy world is a large artistic installation, often on the scale of a building or sculpture parks, 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 Fine art, art made by Autodidacticism, self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the Convention (norm), conventions of the art worlds. The term ''ou ...

List of visionary environments

* Jim Bishop:

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

(US) * Aw Boon Haw (胡文虎) (sponsor/concept): Haw Par Villa (Singapore), Tiger Balm Garden (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, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-c ...

: 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 Catalan architect who was very much involved in and influential for the Catalan '' Modernisme català'', the Art Nouveau/ Jugendstil movement. He was also a Catalan pol ...

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

(Spain) * Kevin Duffy: Rectory Garden Centre, Tudor Village (UK)
official site
* Howard Finster: Paradise Garden (US) * Tom Every: Forevertron (US) * Robert Garcet ( French Wikipedia article): Tour d'Eben-Ezer ( French Wikipedia article) (Belgium) *

Antoni Gaudí Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( , ; ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalans, Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan ''Modernisme''. Gaudí's works have a style, with most located in Barc ...

Park Güell Park Güell ( ; ) is a complex of parks and gardens in Barcelona with architectural elements, located in the La Salut neighborhood of the Gràcia district in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the southern slope of the Turó del Car ...

Sagrada Família The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família, otherwise known as Sagrada Família, is a church under construction in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world. Desi ...

Casa Batlló () is a building in the center of Barcelona, Spain. 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 (but the actual construction works hadn't ...

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

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 (US) * Manfred Gnädinger: 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 The Hundertwasserhaus ("Hundertwasser house") is an Apartment building, apartment house in Vienna, Austria, completed in 1985, after the idea and concept of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Outline This Expressionist architecture, ...

(Austria), Quixote Winery (California), Waldspirale, Grüne Zitadelle von Magdeburg ( German Wikipedia article) (Germany) * Raymond Isidore: Maison Picassiette ( French Wikipedia article) (France) * Mollie Jenson: Art Exhibit (US) * Karl Junker ( German Wikipedia article): 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

(Canada) * Helen Martins: The Owl House (museum), The Owl House (South Africa) * Jeff D. McKissack: The Orange Show (US) * John Milkovisch: The Beer Can House (US) * Đặng Việt Nga: Hằng Nga Guesthouse (Vietnam) * Mary Nohl Art Environment (US) * Eddie Owens Martin: Pasaquan (US) *

Pirro Ligorio Pirro Ligorio ( October 30, 1583) was an Italian architect, painter, antiquarian, and garden designer during the Renaissance period. He worked as the Vatican's Papal Architect under Popes Pope Paul IV, Paul IV and Pope Pius IV, Pius IV, designed ...

: Gardens of Bomarzo (Italy) * Tressa Prisbrey: Bottle Village (US) * Ron's Place (UK) *

Simon Rodia The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or ''Nuestro Pueblo'' ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artis ...

Watts Towers The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or ''Nuestro Pueblo'' ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the arti ...

(US) * Nek Chand Saini (नेक चंद सैणी):

Rock Garden of Chandigarh The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, India. It is also known as Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden of Nathupur after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started building the garden secretly in hi ...

(India) *

Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle (; born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle; 29 October 193021 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books. Widely noted as one of the few female monumental sculp ...

: The Garden of Tarot (Italy) * Jules Senis: Jardin Rosa Mir ( French Wikipedia article) (France) * Vollis Simpson: Windmill Park (US) * Bunleua Sulilat (บุญเหลือ สุรีรัตน์): Buddha Park (Laos), Sala Keoku (Thailand) * Robert Tatin ( French Wikipedia article): Musée Robert Tatin (France) * Kea Tawana: Ark (US) *

Billy Tripp William Blevins Tripp (born 1955 in Jackson, Tennessee), is an American outsider artist, poet, writer, painter, welder, and sculptor, known primarily for his metal sculpture The Mindfield and his stream-of-consciousness autobiography novel, ''Th ...

: The Mindfield (US) * Lek Viriyaphant (เล็ก วิริยะพันธุ์) (sponsor/concept): Sanctuary of Truth, Erawan Museum, Ancient Siam (Thailand) * Jacques Warminski: L’Hélice terrestre (France)
official site
* Bruno Weber: Bruno Weber Park (Switzerland) * Isaiah Zagar:

Philadelphia's Magic Gardens Philadelphia's Magic Gardens is a non-profit organization, folk art environment, and gallery space on South Street (Philadelphia), South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To date, it is the largest work created by mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar ...

(US) * ''various artists'': The Albany Bulb (US)

References

*John Maizels, Deidi von Schaewen (photo), Angelika Taschen (ed.), ''Fantasy Worlds'',

Taschen Taschen is a luxury art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. As of January 2017, Taschen is co-managed by Benedikt Taschen and his eldest daughter, Marlene Taschen. History The company began as Tasch ...

(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 Erika Lee Doss is an American educator and author. She currently holds the EODIAH Distinguished Chair in Art History Professorship in The Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. Formerly, she was a professor a ...

, 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
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List of visionary environments

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