A lot of people think that if it isn't up to the pro standards of academic art, in the classical realist tradition, they're not doing a good enough job. Thing is, things that some primitive artists convey is completely different in mood and does some really interesting different things that you can't reach by academic art standards. Caribbean folk art cluttered with lots of bright figures dancing, for instance, tells you an entirely different situation than any western artist's beach-scene trying to say the same thing.
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Date: 2009-08-04 06:55 am (UTC)Thing is, things that some primitive artists convey is completely different in mood and does some really interesting different things that you can't reach by academic art standards. Caribbean folk art cluttered with lots of bright figures dancing, for instance, tells you an entirely different situation than any western artist's beach-scene trying to say the same thing.