“An increasingly popular movement in the visual arts prides itself on picturing everything that is the raw, untutored, and irrational. ” (WBUR) I don’t know about popular, but I have long been an observer and sometimes collector of raw art, in part because of my work as a psychiatrist. One idea in art brut is that the often compulsive and spontaneous artistic production of “outsiders” (i.e. those disconnected from exposure to the artistic conventions of the cultural mainstream, and certainly untutored in artistic technique, including the mentally ill and developmentally disabled) has an often overwhelming power and pathos, as well as a grace and subtlety, of unmediated and unshaped expressiveness. By the way, if you are ever in Lausanne, do not miss a trip to the Collection de l’Art Brut, the museum of outsider art started by Jean Dubuffet.