Thesis

WK is an artist, that by all standards should be considered outsider. He was mentally ill, rural, painted in a vernacular style, was a religous visionary obsessed with the world ending in a nuclear apocolyspe, and had a heremetic, obsessive qaulity that should have been isolating. But he gained wealth, promienece and cannonical status through most ofhis life. His cunning turned the outside, into one of the most important artists in Canadian history. The emergence of an insider fame through outsider methods, implicity critiques contemparary art practice, and ask questiosn about what it means to be an outsider artist.