What does it mean to be an unconventional artist?

Artists who break away from convention refer to those who jump out of traditional ideas, do not stick to the rules and have strong creative ability.

Chaplin once said: "For an artist, if he can break away from convention and create freely, his achievements will often be amazing."

"Breaking away from convention" is an important feature of excellent artists and their creations. They don't stop at tradition, constantly explore new artistic language, challenge the accustomed perception mode, break through the limitations of programs and conventions, and smash the familiar world image through the inherent fuzziness of their works, which is the most important innovative spirit of contemporary art.

For example, Franz Ackerman was a traveler. The first trip was after studying in Munich and Hamburg. This trip lasted from 1990 to 1992, which took him directly to Asia. During his travels, Ackerman always creates some small watercolors of 13 19cm. He named these works "spiritual maps". When drawing this series of maps in personal subjective consciousness, Ackerman first starts with external impressions, such as the details of buildings or some characteristics of town planning, and then transforms elements with obvious personal style into network structure, which sometimes reminds people of the cross section of human brain.