FOLK ART Definition & Meaning

folk art

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.

folk art

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

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First recorded in 1920–25

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There are ventures that celebrate fast food, Finnish folk art, Skid Row, skateboarding, historical glass, vertebrate zoology and more.

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These are ventures — often one-person crusades — that celebrate fast food, Finnish folk art, Skid Row, skateboarding, vertebrate zoology and more.

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Time was when such work would have been siloed in collections of “Outsider Art” or folk art.

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“Pure folk art,” he calls the kind of music he’s drawn to.

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Xiyadie’s home province of Shanxi was a hub for folk art; in his hometown, paper cuts marked births, weddings and Lunar New Year celebrations.

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