The terms “art brut” and “outsider art” are highly controversial and bring forth a lot of debate on whether they stand for the same artistic phenomenon or different ones. Originally “art brut” (“raw art”) referred to works of mental patients, challenged people, prisoners – any person deemed misfit from the point of view of the society. Art brut artists did not undergo any artistic training, and therefore were not subjected to cultural and artistic stereotypes, their works are intuitive and do not follow any common templates. The term “outsider art” emerged later and also embraced children and any gifted people who work intuitively, not being professional artists, and moreover not considering themselves as such. Art brut stands for pure creative process, intuitive, and even compulsive, that comes directly from the subconscious and reveals the unconscious, internal thirst for creative expression that is as inherent to us as it was to ancient people. And therefore it is impossible to paint an art brut painting on purpose – the purpose itself means that the creative process is limited by the mind and the goal, and these works can be viewed as kitsch, expressionism, anything else but art brut. Despite that, some modern artists who are sane and even successful, call themselves art brut artists – and so the issue remains open. Outsiders is a broad term – please don’t misread for marginalized persons, since the extremes modern artists run to often stink of marginal behaviors, in fact being just PR moves. Outsiders and art brut artists use simple, nonclassical materials, they distort, or rather create (since they are not aware of the rules) their own principles of composition, colouring and perspective. These paintings induce the primal fear before the unknown, the anxiety, inapprehension and the desire to know and understand – it might be true to say that no other style in fine arts has moved closer to the genuine, unbiased, sincere image of a man as he really is, with no taint of civilization with its inevitable hypocracy. This makes art brut so emotionally open and understandable to anybody – you might be shocked, amazed or appalled, but you will not stay indifferent.