art brut

noun

ˈär(t)-ˈbrut 

-ˈbrᵫt

: outsider art

… a broad range of graphic style from art brut to bathroom graffiti …

—Publishers Weekly, 3 Sept. 2001

… this odd Southern girl has been releasing dreamily primitive electric folk-blues records for more than ten years now—wobbly art brut affairs held together with hair and saliva …

—Spin, February 2006

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French, literally, "raw [crude, unprocessed] art"

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

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