Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in the arts and related occupations]
8. [people in the arts]
9. [people in the visual arts and related occupations]
10. [people in the visual arts]
11. artists (visual artists)
12. [artists by status or location]
13. self-taught artists

Anotations

Scope note:

Artists who create in order to express an often intense and very personal vision or aesthetic, and whose work is usually unmediated by the standards, traditions, and practices of the culture of the art world, as embodied by the international art markets and established art institutions.