primitive art

Noun

Meaning

a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

outsider art naive art self-taught art vernacular art

Hypernyms

genre

Examples

The increase of visual stress among the Greeks alienated them from the primitive art that the electronic age now reinvents after interiorizing the "unified field” of electric all-at-onceness. Marshall McLuhan

The failure of abstract painting is due to the confusion that exists in the understanding of primitive art [as well as that] concerning the nature of abstraction. Barnett Newman

Close letter words and terms

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