primitivism definition of primitivism in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

primitivism, in art, the style of works of self-trained artists who develop their talents in a fanciful and fresh manner, as in the paintings of Henri Rousseau Rousseau, Henri (äNrē` r
..... Click the link for more information. and Grandma Moses Moses, Grandma (Anna Mary Robertson Moses), 1860–1961, American painter, b. Washington co., N.Y., self-taught. She lived the arduous life of a farm wife, first in the Shenandoah Valley and later at Eagle Bridge, near Hoosick Falls, N.Y.
..... Click the link for more information. . The term primitive has also been used to describe the style of early American naive painters such as Edward Hicks Hicks, Edward, 1780–1849, American painter and preacher, b. Bucks co., Pa. A member of the Society of Friends, he became a noted back-country preacher in the conservative group of Quakers associated with his cousin Elias Hicks .
..... Click the link for more information. and has been applied to the art of the various Italian and Netherlandish schools produced prior to c.1450. More recently the term has included modern artists who research the past as well as cultures foreign to their own, such as Robert Smithson Smithson, Robert, 1938–73, American sculptor, b. Passaic, N.J. After first making modular, serial sculpture, Smithson began to design large-scale earthworks (see land art ) in the 1960s.
..... Click the link for more information. and Joseph Beuys Beuys, Joseph (yō`zĕf bois), 1921–86, German artist, b. Krefeld; one of the most influential of postmodern artists.
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See W. Rubin, ed., Primitivism in 20th-Century Art (1988).

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