FÃ¡tima is a civil parish in the municipality of OurÃ©m, in the Portuguese SantarÃ©m District, Beira Litoral Province. The population in 2011 was 11,596, in an area of 71.84 kmÂ². The parish encompasses several villages and localities of which FÃ¡tima, with a population of 7,756 residents, is the largest. Part of the urban agglomeration of Leiria, it is 187 km south of Porto and 123 km north of Lisbon. The civil parish has been permanently associated with the Marian apparitions that were ...
An artist's statement (or artist statement) is an artist's written description of their work.he first exhibition of artists' statements, The Art of the Artist's Statement, was curated by Georgia Kotretsos and Maria Pashalidou at the Hellenic Museum, Chicago, in the spring of 2005.
The term outsider art was coined by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for art brut (French: [aÊ bÊyt], raw art or rough art), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by those on the outside of the established art ...