Naive and Folk Art

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Includes art in all mediums that reflects cultural life and values of a community, particularly showcasing naive artists from the UK, America, and Australia.

Urban Landscape

Suburban Night Life Continued

Suburban Night Life

Naive and Folk Art

Mario Previ

Mario Previ, Italian artist. Mario is from Borgo Val di Taro, in the Taro Valley, in the Province of Parma, Italy.

Patterns

Patterns in Paintings

This post is especially directed at those of you who are learning to paint though hopefully everyone will gain something from the content. Contains paintings by naive artist Antonio Ligabue, Emmy Lou Packard and Anne Newman.

Naive and Folk Art

Morris Hirshfield

Morris Hirshfield, born Poland in 1872 migrated to New York America when he was 18 years old. Finding work making women’s coats eventually lead him to establish his own coat manufacturing business with his brother.

Naive and Folk Art

More Paintings Created by Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses had her first solo exhibition on 9 October 1940 at The Galerie St Etienne 46 West 57th Street, New York City. The owner of the gallery Otto Kallir believed in Anna Mary and her style of painting.

Naive and Folk Art

American Folk Art: Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860–1961) began painting seriously in a folk/naive style at 78 years proving you are never too old to start. She gained her fame as Grandma Moses.

Naive and Folk Art

Shaker Art

The Shaker furniture designers and makers were reacting to their contemporaneous situation, the functional needs of their time. Other Shaker artists who produced gift drawings were reacting to the spiritual revelations they believed were coming from their leader Mother Ann Lee who died in 1784.

Techniques

Troublesome Tangents in paintings

Tangents occur where two lines touch each other. They are of course essential in mathematics. But in painting they can cause all kinds of problems and can ruin your painting. If two lines meet in a composition the viewer can become confused with the ambiguity

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