Narrowly, a visionary is one who experiences a supernatural vision or apparition. By extension, visionary came to mean also a person with a clear, distinctive and specific (in some details) vision of the future, usually connected with advances in technology or political arrangements. Other visionaries simply imagine what does not yet exist, or what will never exist on Earth but it appears to be ideal or perfect as imagined or thought of. Examples would be Buckminster Fuller in architecture, and some of the pioneers of personal computing such as Steve Jobs. A visionary may function as a secular prophet, emphasising communication and a figurehead role, rather than implementation. Visionary art is defined as a category of primitive art (i.e. art of those not formally trained). Artists may produce art categorised as 'visionary' for its luminous content, without being primitives in any sense (e.g. Samuel Palmer). An artist celebrated for his visionar

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