Early American Folk Art Paintings

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Early american folk art paintings.

Just shipped another by the light of the moon painting to a family in pennsylvania. See more ideas about american painting american folk art folk art painting. There is often overlap or contested ground with naive art but in. Handmade early american folk art creations primitives primitive primitive folk art primitive folk art designs primitive country folk art art folk primitive.

As a self taught artist i have always been fascinated by early american history including the folk art style of painting that went along with it. Early american folk art paintings. Folk art paintings and folk art portraits early american folk art paintings and folk art portraits were commonly done in various styles. Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture definitions vary but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind rather than being exclusively decorative the makers of folk art are normally trained within a popular tradition rather than in the fine art tradition of the culture.

I have studied the styles of many famous folk art painters as well as not so famous folk art painters. One style was referred to as primitive. The style varied from artist to artist. It was quite common for both young boys and also girls to be painted wearing dresses.