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"In a fine arts context, the term nave is used to describe artists who work in an unsophisticated style with a child-like simplicity, often ignoring art conventions such as the rules of perspective. Work of artists in sophisticated societies who lack or reject formal training. Naive artists, not to be confused with hobbyists, create with the same passion as trained artists but without formal knowledge of methods. Often, but not always, artists labeled, as nave never attended art school and worked outside the art establishment. Many nave artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training. The term nave art is often seen as outside art, which is without a formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for nave art.
Naive paintings are often extremely detailed, with a tendency toward the use of brilliant, saturated colors and a characteristic absence of perspective, which creates the illusion of figures floating in space. Self-assured, as if following the instructions of an innate coloring handbook, the artist applies the colors of his instinctive choice, sometimes surprisingly and boldly, yet invariably harmoniously .Colors are characteristically bright and non-naturalistic, perspective non-scientific, and the vision childlike or literal-minded. Naive art has a quality of its own that is easy to recognize but hard to define. Scottie Wilson summed it up when he said €It's a feeling you cannot explain. You're born with it and it just comes out.'
The work of a good artist reveals his attitude towards the world we live in, the naive artist in particular being rooted with absolute immediacy in his environment as, untrammeled by all theories, he strives to give pictorial form to his personal vision - on canvas, paper, wood, pasteboard, etc . Uninfluenced by art traditions, they come to grips with their personal experiences and paint pictures mirroring their memories, desires and dreams. His way of seeing the world cannot be acquired and makes for highly individualistic art. This art cannot be copied, and any attempt to paint in ""naive style"" is doomed to failure from the start . Naive artists are thus genuine personalities, distinguished by an original and unmistakable stylistic independence.
Nobody knows exactly when the first naive artists appeared on the scene, as from the very first manifestations of art right up to the days of the ""Modern Classic"", naive artists quite unconsciously bequeathed us unmistakable signs of their creative activity. The birth of the nave art which has been a great contribution of creativity to the world is still unknown. Naive art developed in the 19th century (before then, pictures that have a naive quality might more reasonably be classified as folk art or simply as amateurish works) and the first notable exponent was perhaps the American Edward Hicks (1780€"1849), famous for his religious scenes. Well-known naive artists include HENRI ROUSSEAU and GRANDMA MOSES.
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Naive paintings are often extremely detailed, with a tendency toward the use of brilliant, saturated colors and a characteristic absence of perspective, which creates the illusion of figures floating in space. Self-assured, as if following the instructions of an innate coloring handbook, the artist applies the colors of his instinctive choice, sometimes surprisingly and boldly, yet invariably harmoniously .Colors are characteristically bright and non-naturalistic, perspective non-scientific, and the vision childlike or literal-minded. Naive art has a quality of its own that is easy to recognize but hard to define. Scottie Wilson summed it up when he said €It's a feeling you cannot explain. You're born with it and it just comes out.'
The work of a good artist reveals his attitude towards the world we live in, the naive artist in particular being rooted with absolute immediacy in his environment as, untrammeled by all theories, he strives to give pictorial form to his personal vision - on canvas, paper, wood, pasteboard, etc . Uninfluenced by art traditions, they come to grips with their personal experiences and paint pictures mirroring their memories, desires and dreams. His way of seeing the world cannot be acquired and makes for highly individualistic art. This art cannot be copied, and any attempt to paint in ""naive style"" is doomed to failure from the start . Naive artists are thus genuine personalities, distinguished by an original and unmistakable stylistic independence.
Nobody knows exactly when the first naive artists appeared on the scene, as from the very first manifestations of art right up to the days of the ""Modern Classic"", naive artists quite unconsciously bequeathed us unmistakable signs of their creative activity. The birth of the nave art which has been a great contribution of creativity to the world is still unknown. Naive art developed in the 19th century (before then, pictures that have a naive quality might more reasonably be classified as folk art or simply as amateurish works) and the first notable exponent was perhaps the American Edward Hicks (1780€"1849), famous for his religious scenes. Well-known naive artists include HENRI ROUSSEAU and GRANDMA MOSES.
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