Autistic Artist

Single Attention!

I had an excellent conversation yesterday with Branson, my honorary brother. Branson knows about autism and has worked with disabled adults.

So when describing a recent perseveration of mine, Branson said "Have you ever noticed that when a neurotypical does it it's called "persevering," but when a autistic person does it, it's called "perseveration?"

Rory Hoy talks a little about autistic perserverations in his short award winning film, Autism and Me.

I just loved it.

And here's a newspaper article about Rory and his film.

Urville!

Autistic Paul Tehrin has spent twenty years inventing a city. His art is fascinatingly detailed. He has a website and a book.

Visit the Stunning Paintings of Jessica Park

A while back, an anonymous poster left a link of nationally known artist Jessica Park who is autistic. Most of Park's paintings are architectural renderings in imaginative color. I'm awed by these highly original artworks. The Folk Art Messenger had an interesting article on Park, as did Art Business News.

Stephen Wiltshire Draws Rome

This guy is amazing.

No, I cannot do this.

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic savant.

Beyond Speculation: Autistic Artists

According to the Wikipedia, following artists, in various disciplines, are reputed to be autistic. The list includes:

Christopher Knowles, American poet

Matthew Laborteaux, actor on Little House on the Prairie

Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter

Satoshi Tajiri, creator and designer of Pokémon

Hikari Oe, Japanese composer

Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator

Donna Williams, Australian-born author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor

Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist

Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor

Jonathan Lerman, American artist

Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist

Tito Mukhopadhyay, author, poet and philosopher

Speculating About Autistic Aritists

A discussion in Wikipedia gives a list of people speculated to have been autistic. Artists in various disciplines include: Hans Christian Andersen, Béla Bartók, James Joyce, Michelangelo, and Andy Warhol.

Autistic is Artistic

In an online article on artnet, Dr. Larry E. Dumont says that "Artistic is autistic."

I like that.

The article also notes that "the personal vision of artists in general can be considered autistic, though this doesn't mean that they have autism."