So here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: primitivism
Genre: genre painting
Primitivists deliberately simplify the technique and style of their paintings to the level of a child, a primitive man, a representative of the people or an ethnic group that lead their lives away from civilization. Naïve art is sometimes attributed to this style. It should be noted, however, that naïve paintings belong to the artists who… do not have the artistic training and who work intuitively, while the primitivists are trained artists who choose to explore the particular view of the world.
This style is valuable for the straightforward, sincere perception of the world, refusal from the established practices of academic painting. This style develops “from scratch”, no limits, no pathos and the old school. We see the scenes depicted in primitivist genre paintings the way they are watched by a child, like we watched the parade as kids, or our granny making pancakes. Each movement is meaningful, each person or an object is seen as part of a larger picture, and even the separate things are seen as such only because a child cannot yet grasp their connection. In the eyes of a child they are all elements of the same mysterious ornament, the miraculous routine that is so exciting right now but soon will bore and tire them when they grow up. Primitivist canvases are distinguished for their pure colours, large colour fields, solid figures with no attention to smaller details, somewhat angular forms and distorted perspective, scale variance to convey the distance, as seen in children’s drawings – you make closer objects large, and further ones small to make the differene.
A person who prefers primitivist genre paintings is a man of settled habits. He works on creating his own cosy universe of daily rituals and practices. His desire to systematize and rationalize everything around is not rooted in discipline or other external factors. It comes from the willingness to find joy in simple things, from the wisdom of an old man that borders on the naivity of a kid – the wisdom to see life as a colourful glorious valley rather than a road of black and white stripes. This view of the world is only possible when you are able to picture your whole life at a time – your future when you are a kid, or your past when you are an old man.
Must See for you:
Maitres: Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Marc Chagall (Belarus), Henri Rousseau, Louis Vivin (France), Maria Prymachenko (Ukraine), Niko Pirosmani (Georgia), Ivan Generalic (Croatia)
Modern artists: Kadushkina-Pilipenko O.V., Abuseva Rosa, Gladysheva Ye.S., Shebarshina S.V. (Russia), Ashot Avag’yan (Armenia), Prince Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki (Nigeria), Svirgun A.F. (Ukraine), Radi Nedelchev (Bolgaria)
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