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Dwight Mackintosh |
Publications de la Collection de l'Art Brut, fascicule 17, Lausanne, 1992.
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| Following postnatal brain damage, Dwight Mackintosh is diagnosed as a mentally retarded child. He is first hospitalized at the age of sixteen. He will spend his life going from one psychiatric institution to another. He is seventy-two years old when the doctors decide that he might benefit from living outside a mental hospital. His themes are repetitive: the human body, vehicles with engines (X-rayed buses and cars), and animals. His main subject is what he calls "Boysses", groups of naked boys with erected penises. These "boysses" often have red cheeks and long hair. The outlines are often repeated, as if one line only did not suffice; as if the repetition of the gesture confirmed that he is the author of his work or that he is just him. The ever repeated outline of the penis makes it look longer and longer. Sometimes he adds hands in sign of masturbation. Is this just sexual excitement or a traumatic experience? The drawing reproduced in this book makes us think that Dwight has first drawn the profile of a face, and then, as if it were not sufficient, drawn the other half. Unless it is someone looking at himself in a mirror? An indecipherable text accompanies the image. Writing is ever present in the work of Mackintosh. | ||
| SEE ALSO: MacGREGOR (John). Dwight Mackintosh:
The Boy Who Time Forgot, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, 1992.
Publications de la Collection de l'Art Brut, fascicule 17, Lausanne, 1992. |
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