NOUN
- a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
How To Use primitive art In A Sentence
- In the 1980s Jacques Kerchache, a former dealer, collector and connoisseur of primitive art, took up the cudgels again.
- It was a radical group of artists and poets who were interested in folk and primitive art as well as in spontaneous expression.
- However, he was not at first as interested in the Fine Arts of painting and drawing as he was with the exotic primitive arts that were being collected from South Sea Islands at that time.
- Although slightly tinged with pedantism and preciosity, its freshness, its grace, its inspiration and sincerity, give it a flavour almost of primitive art. The French Revolution A Short History
- There's a scarlet dining-room, with distressed metal walls, a Chinese emperor's daybed for lounging about on, and a fabulous collection of primitive art and antiques.
- Primitive art such as that by grandma moses is often colorful and striking.
- Breaking with the traditional canon of styles in the arts, pop art is as experimental as the expressionist or primitive arts.
- On a short trip to London that fall, he pursued his study of primitive art in the Egyptian, Assyrian, and African collections at the British Museum.
- Indeed, there will be what he describes as "lots of 20th-century paintings, photographs and so-called primitive art,"at the fair's 52 galleries from France, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. NYT > Home Page
- Matisse was not one to rest on his laurels, and he continued studying various styles including primitive art, and the work of painters in other disciplines.
