Primitivism

Primitivism

Six Paintings. One Concept

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It is logical: as modernity broke with the rules of “how art is supposed to be made”, the tradition imposed through academies; modern language enthusiastically incorporated elements of diverse original, exotic cultures that were not “contaminated” by those rules of the Western art.

It was called “Primitivism.” And those elements of faraway and exotic cultures, or ancestral cultures, or the culture of those who have not been “taught” —as children and their naif art— are fundamental for the renewal of the artistic language. They revitalize it with their innocence, freshness, rusticity, simplification, intense colors, “not real” framing, and “weird” perspectives.

Recommended links:

Primitivism in Modernity.

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), Pablo Picasso.

When Will You Marry? (1892), Paul Gauguin.

Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907).

Woman with Blue Eyes (1918), Amedeo Modigliani.

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