Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics.
PRIMITIVISM
This word either describes the
specific artistic movement which
emerged as a reaction to the Enlightenment, or any attempt to
idealize artworks or artefacts that
are judged to be relatively simple
or primitive.
Primitivism: painting, prints, works on paper, sculpture. Many modern European artists became fascinated with the tribal arts from Africa, the South Pacific, Indonesia and early European folk art.
Neo-primitivism.
Russian movement that took its name from Aleksandr Shevchenko's Neo-primitivizm (1913). This book describes a crude style of painting practised by members of the DONKEY'S TAIL group.
See also Primitivism and Neo-primitivism Naïve art is characterized by a childlike simplicity.
In terms of primitivism: Pollock was very influenced by the work of Picasso, and the work Guernica, after reading an article by John D. Graham entitled 'Primitive Art and Picasso'.
He accomplishes his aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.
Some learned journalists see it as an art for babies, other Jesuscallingthelittlechildrenuntohim saints see it as a return to an unemotional and noisy primitivism - noise and monotonous.
Before the 1890s Gauguin flattened his imagery with sometimes unsuccessful results, but throughout that decade his "primitivism" became less forced. The influences of J.-A.-D.
(2)The term also refers to the Primitivism art movement, which is characterized by a rough or manipulated application of paint invoking the idea of rawness, and flat or geometric designs.
Painting - emotional effects, emotional experience, avant-garde, nineteenth-century, Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, psychological depths, symbolic colors, exaggerated imagery, human psyche, exaggeration, primitivism, ...
His painting, which ranges from tragic scenes to ironic self-portraits, begins with a pre-existing image, transforming its meaning by shifts as subtle as they are unpredictable. His bodies display a Primitivism which suggests the influence of ...
Expressionism is not so much concerned with representing accurate forms and harmony, but rather it strives to achieve the highest expression intensity through the use of exaggeration, distortion, primitivism, ...
It introduced components that would have significant and lasting impact on modern art overall - primitivism and folklore notes with elements of mysticism.
 See also: Movement, Painting, Expression, Modern art, Impression
  
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