Outsider Art
Outsider Art is a term used to describe art that is made by people who choose to live and work outside society. The artists who produce this kind of art-Outsider Artists-work in isolation from other artists and have little or no formal artistic training. Because they do not learn conventional artistic techniques from teachers or other artists. Outsider Artists must invent their own ways of doing things. As a result of the unconventional methods that Outsider Artists often use, their work can look strange and not at all like traditional art to the observer.
1. All right, so let's consider the work of the outsider artist - Henry Darger.
2. Darger lived by himself in a tiny apartment in Chicago in the 1900s.
3. He had no friends and spent all his spare time there alone creating hundreds of paintings and drawings.
4. He had never formally studied art and kept his work completely private, so no one ever saw it or responded to it during his lifetime.
5. And so when you see Darger's work, you notice how unique it is.
6. It doesn't remind you of anything you've ever seen before.
7. It's very much his own.
8. For example, one piece - it's a water color painting.
9. In this piece he illustrates a story about the adventures of seven children.
10. But see, Darger had a really hard time drawing human figures, yet he managed to come up with his own rather unique solution for the problem.
11. He simply cut out pictures of children from newspapers and magazines and pasted them into his own painted illustration of trees, flowers and grass.
12. The results look...umm…a little strange.
13. Darger's picture looks more-cluttered, more crowded with details than the pictures of other artists because its entire surface's painted and there are no spaces left empty.
14. It's also a lot longer than the pictures of most other artists, about nine feeing long.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 559.0 592.248995984 94% => OK
No of words: 141.0 155.574297189 91% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.96453900709 3.80514564318 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.44591672665 3.525876923 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.1746813495 1.79077849142 121% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 93.7148594378 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.609929078014 0.604071249207 101% => OK
Syllable count: 171.9 185.844578313 92% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0820397259331 0.0650381309087 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 35.25 68.503853103 51% => OK
STD paragraph length: 34.6797851781 21.3332995233 163% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.605 25.9943957902 56% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.832278146 7.84667146824 189% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 42.0642570281 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.525 4.02192344571 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.33438964186 3.1217529195 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.2975 1.45093177766 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.832114024638 0.99851816184 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 39.0421686747 95% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.1 7.12997991968 128% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.245945945946 0.185688545393 132% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.322066465018 0.155154303396 208% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.75 47.1480722892 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.310283687943 0.305395592593 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.186779132517 0.189427763521 99% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.5 6.2937751004 119% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.65 3.39508032129 108% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.42 59.7592369478 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.973666666667 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.63334474495 0.656000678711 97% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.41355700103 2.60215298798 93% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.47209859637 1.56821927147 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.96571428571 1.99336655568 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.250086489362 0.317803793328 79% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.