folk art

noun

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.

Origin of folk art

First recorded in 1920–25

Related formsfolk-art, adjectivefolk artist, noun

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Examples from the Web for folk art

Contemporary Examples of folk art

But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.
My Friend Oderus Urungus: GWAR’s Dave Brockie Was a High School Punk Legend
Andy Hinds
March 25, 2014

Historical Examples of folk art

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 School
Porter 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 School
Porter Lander MacClintock

British Dictionary definitions for folk art

folk art

noun

the visual arts, music, drama, dance, or literature originating from, or traditional to, the common people of a country

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