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Maizels was born on January 4, 1945, in London, United Kingdom. He is the son of Alfred and Joan (Sidey) Maizels.
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The mystery and awe inspired by wizards and sorcery have captivated audiences for centuries. Now anyone can learn to bring these mythical characters to life through drawing and painting. How to Draw Wizards covers everything from rendering cauldrons and skulls to dungeons and forests. The book also contains several step-by-step projects featuring a mix of pencil, paint, and digital image-editing instruction, allowing artists to replicate each scene in detail. An enchantress, a medicine man, a druid, and a necromancer merely scratch the surface of subjects in this enchanting title.
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One day, Ferdinand Cheval, a French postman, came across a stone at Hauterives near Lyon, and was fascinated by its strange, evocative shape. He spent the next three decades collecting stones, shells, and fossils, and used them to build the Palais ideal. Cheval's palace is one of many works of architectural fantasy in this book, the result of over 20 years' research by celebrated architectural photographer Deidi von Schaewen. Like Cheval, the creators of these extraordinary worlds simply started building, with no rules to guide them and, in most cases, no previous artistic experience. These fantasy palaces, bizarre sanctuaries, and colorful sculpture gardens seldom follow a plan. Often the artists continued building for many years, sometimes until their dying day. Their work is impossible to categorise: Art brut, architecture with-out architects, self-taught art, fantasy architecture in the tradition of Piranesi, non-academic architecture, Outsider Art - none of these definitions quite encapsulates this worldwide phenomenon. Eccentric hideaways like the Tour de l'Apocalypse in Belgium, the Junkerhaus at Lemgo or the Owl House in South Africa appear alongside Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, which dominate the cityscape of Los Angeles. To venture into this world is to immerse oneself in the collective unconscious. The addresses of sites open to the public are listed in the appendix.
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Maizels was born on January 4, 1945, in London, United Kingdom. He is the son of Alfred and Joan (Sidey) Maizels.
Maizels became Bachelor of Arts at Chelsea College of Arts in London in 1967.
John Maizels is the founder of Raw Vision magazine which he created in London in 1989. The magazine was made as a forum for the work of self-taught artists, or unknown geniuses, which he felt was overlooked and under-appreciated.
Maizels is the author of several art books including the Outsider Art Sourcebook, Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond, and Raw Erotica which he has most recently been working on with Roger Cardinal and Colin Rhodes.
In addition, Maizels contributed to Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art. He was a freelance artist for many years from 1967. He served as an editor and publisher of Raw Vision from 1984.
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Quotations: “I have been involved in the study of ‘outsider art’ for many years. I have been overwhelmed by its truth and power, especially when compared to the paucity of so much contemporary art. As a result of this involvement, decided to write a ‘guidebook’ to outsider art that would take the reader through the various discoveries and developments of the century and point to many aspects for further research and inquiry.”
Maizels married Margaret Elizabeth Jones on May 28, 1969. They have 2 children: Jennie and Lucy.