folk art
- artistic works, as paintings, sculpture, basketry, and utensils, produced typically in cultural isolation by untrained often anonymous artists or by artisans of varying degrees of skill and marked by such attributes as highly decorative design, bright bold colors, flattened perspective, strong forms in simple arrangements, and immediacy of meaning.
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Origin of folk art
First recorded in 1920–25
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Examples from the Web for folk art
Contemporary Examples
But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.
Historical Examples
The custom of using animals and plants to represent human beings and to express human meanings is as old as folk-art itself.
Literature in the Elementary SchoolPorter Lander MacClintock
Let it stand as a bit of child-art, just as we rejoice to let crude productions stand as folk-art.
Literature in the Elementary SchoolPorter Lander MacClintock
folk art
- the visual arts, music, drama, dance, or literature originating from, or traditional to, the common people of a country
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