Folk Art

Folk Art is art which does not come out of the fine art tradition. Folk Artists are typically from rural or pre-industrial societies, and are more closely related to craftsmen than fine artists.  Folk Art is characterized by a naive style, in which traditional rules of perspective and proportion are not employed.  Closely related terms are Outsider Art, Naive Art, and Self-Taught Art. Well known Folk Artists include Grandma Moses, Edward Hicks and Candian Maud Lewis

African American Man Carved from log, late 19thC smoking a pipe, carrying a pouch and cotton hook wearing a his pants with one leg rolled higher than the other.

Rocking Chicken American early 1900's

Nude Reclining on a Tree

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