So here is the final verdict on your preferences in art:
Style: primitivism
Genre: portrait
A primitivist artist sees the world with sincere and excited eyes of a child. All routine and conventional actions are part of a mysterious game played by adults, and the child is getting to know the rules and act everything out. This is why people in primitivist portraits look so much like characters of some fairy-tales or legends.
They are solid and monumental. In other styles a person is treated as a representative of a profession, a class, a generation or a historic period. Here a person is a mystery to be solved, a world to be discovered. A child cannot yet analyze and generalize, a child perceives a beard, a coat and a chair a stranger is seating in together as one whole image. And so, the primitivists avoid extra details, but each of them that make it to the canvases is not a characteristic, but part of the image. For such a holistic portrayal of a person the artists use pure colours and simplified forms that contribute to the integrity, the solidity of the image. The world of a primitivist is quiet and peaceful, and people are only one part of the intricate ornament of life. The distorted perspective, different scales of figures to convey the depth in the background are not deceiving the viewer, and so the person in the portrait is perceived only in the context – or rather a part of the background, in harmony with the surrounding world.
A person who chooses primitivist portraits is sincere and straightforward, which makes him quite judgmental and emphatic. He takes people for what they really are, does not pick on small details and flaws and never ventures to change anybody. This approach dwells on the wisdom to tolerate own and other people’s weaknesses and to develop one’s strengths. This person tends to idealize positive qualities of the people he meets rather than dig for the dirt, which makes his support so valuable when the times are hard. Like no one else he can encourage and empower the people who turn to him for support.
Must See for you:
Maitres: Marc Chagall (Belarus), Frida Kahlo (Mexico), Camille Bombois, Henri Rousseau (France), Bilokur Katerina, Maria Prymachenko (Ukraine), Antonio Laccabue (Switzerland), Niko Pirosmani (Georgia).
Modern artists: Buzuluk Yulia (Ukraine), Kadushkina-Pilipenko O.V., Zimin S.K. (Russia)
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