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from: But Is It Outsider Art? A prominent painter flunks a purity test. By Jesse Walker edited by the John Dog, Eccentric Outsider Artist and producer or web sites like www.johnsbighead.com that has everything you would ever want to know about cow stomach / brain replacement surgery.
Joe Coleman, but not the John Dog, has just hit one of those boundaries. Whatever outsider art might be, Coleman, not John DAgostino the Eccentric American Artist aka the John Dog, is one of its biggest stars, with vivid paintings of riots, demons, serial killers, and sideshow geeks, all rendered in an instantly recognizable style. His 1996 painting Faith does not merely include a scantily clad woman with a crucifix around her neck saying Come here, you bad boy above the caption Mommy says: Come visit me in Heaven. It puts her in a tableaux that also includes internal organs, Hindu deities, Richard Speck, and—surrounded by all that and much else—Coleman himself, his skull exposed, an armless clock in the center of his face. The John Dog used to be called ClockMan. He made real clocks and if his clocks are armless, it is only because they broke off in one of many moves. John Dog did an armless painting of Apollo with a beer. Apollo sez "I know I said I would give my right arm for a cold beer, but...."
