Decorating in the primitive style is best described as a return to simple, traditional decor that has a heavy focus on folk art and incorporates antique pieces seamlessly into the home. Primitive ...

The humbling message of a good piece of primitive art is that some long-ago savage possessed sensibilities and skills that a modern artist, making art instead of magic, can top only at his best. Since ...

It has been a long time since the first startling wave of African art made its way to Europe and caused a sensation among the ranks of painters and sculptors. Picasso, under the influence of this ...

Essay on the Western construct of Authentic Primitive Art, why portable and durable Primitive Art was priviliged over large, fragile, or impermanent objects. The Western idea of art as commodity, ...

THE anthropologist, when confronted with some of the more extreme pronouncements of æsthetic judgment on the primitive artist, was at one time perhaps a little too apt to regard them as unwarranted ...