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Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. A craft is a Skill, especially involving practical arts. It may refer to a Trade or particular art Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Fine art is any Art form developed primarily for Aesthetics rather than Utility. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art. [1]

Antique folk art is distinguished from traditional art in that while it is collected today based mostly on its artistic merit; it was never intended as a category to be art for art’s sake. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "whimsical" antiques.

Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and for the most part, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" or "fine art" to the society's art patrons. An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal followed by a group of artists during a restricted period of time or at least with the heyday Academic art is a style of Painting and Sculpture produced under the influence of European academies or universities [1]

Other terms that overlap with folk art are naïve art, popular art, outsider art, traditional art and even working class art. See also Primitivism and Neo-primitivism Naïve art is characterized by a childlike simplicity The term Outsider Art was coined by Art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (aʁ bʁu meaning "raw art" Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the Craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups As you would expect, all these terms have different connotations; but they are all at times used interchangeably with the term folk art, for which a satisfactory definition has proven hard to come by.


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Noted folk artists

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  1. ^ a b West, Shearer (general editor), The Bullfinch Guide to Art History, page 440, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, 1996. Grego Anderson (born 1967 is a Blues folk artist who lives in Austin, Texas. Elito V " Amangpintor " Circa (January 1970 is a Filipino folk painter. Justus DaLee was an American Folk artist born October 1, 1793 in Pittstown Washington County New York to James Waterman DaLee and his wife William Edmondson (1882? - 1951 was an African-American Folk art Sculptor. thumb|Forevertron's Power Source thumb|Bird Symphony's Bass Section Forevertron is the largest Scrap metal Sculpture in the world The Reverend Howard Finster ( December 2, 1916 - October 22, 2001) was a Folk artist from Summerville Georgia who claimed Chris Flesher is an American Folk art Woodcarver. Chris Flesher has spent most of his artistic career as a free-lance sign painter in rural West Theophilos Hatzimihail (born ca 1870 Vareia near Mytilene, island of Lesbos, Greece; &ndash died Vareia 22 March; 1934 Edward Hicks ( April 14, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American Folk painter, a distinguished minister of David L Hostetler (born December 27, 1926) is a Wood carver and Bronze Sculptor of works capturing the female form he is also Clementine Hunter ( December 4, 1886 / 1887 - January 1 1988) was born around 1886 at Hidden Hill plantation near Cloutierville Joshua Johnson (c1763&ndash1832 was the first African American painter to make his living by Painting. Joshua Daniel Goodwin (born 24 December, 1949) is a Nova Scotian Folk artist well known for his unique Sculptures crafted from Bob Justin, a self taught Outsider artist, was born in New Jersey in 1941 Frida Kahlo (July 6 1907 – July 13 1954 was a Mexican painter, who has achieved great international popularity Dóra Keresztes (b October 3 1953 Budapest) Hungarian painter, printmaker Illustrator, Graphic designer and Animated film Arnold Kramer ( 1872 - 1976) was an American folk artist. Early life Arnold Kramer was one of 12 children born to Michael and Gertrude Greer Lankton (1958-1996 was an American artist whose work was dedicated to creating life-like posable dolls and figures Maud Lewis (1903-1970 was a folk artist born in Yarmouth County Nova Scotia, Canada Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980 was a preacher missionary artist musician and poet who worked in New Orleans in the 1960s and '70s notable primarily for her Folk Anna Mary Robertson Moses ( September 7 1860 &ndash December 13 1961) better known as " Grandma Moses " was a renowned Ammi Phillips (1788–1865 a Self-taught New England Portrait painter is regarded as one of the most important Folk artists of his era Susan Powers (born in 1954 in Glen Cove New York) is a self-taught American Artist who began painting in 1979 encouraged by a friend and fellow painter who had seen Mary Shelley (born 1950 Doylestown Pa is an American Folk artist with no formal visual art training for others with the same name see Leo Smith (disambiguation Leo R Jimmy Lee Sudduth ( March 10, 1910 - September 2, 2007) was a prominent Outsider artist and Blues musician from Fayette Edgar Tolson (1904-1984 was a woodcarver from Kentucky who became a well-known Folk artist He was born in Trent Fork, Wolfe County as the Claudia Vecchiarelli is a contemporary Italian-German naive painter, whose favourite subjects are Italian landscapes (especially those of Tuscany and Enoch Tanner Wickham ( ET) 1883 - 1970 was a self-taught Folk artist who built life-size concrete statues along a rural road in Palmyra Tennessee. The Highwaymen were a loose association of 26 African American artists from the Fort Pierce, Florida area in the United States. An alebrije (aleˈβɾihe is a brightly-colored Mexican Folk art sculptures of fantastical animal-like creatures Chinese folk art are artistic forms inherited from a regional or ethnic scene in China. African Folk Art consists of a wide variety of items household objects metal objects toys textiles masks and wood sculpture among others An ex-voto is a Votive offering to a Saint or Divinity. It is given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term short for ex voto suscepto A retablo (or lamina) is painting typically done on a wood carving Yakshagana ( Kannada:ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ pronounced as yaksha-gaana) is a classical Folk art form of the state of Karnataka in India See also Primitivism and Neo-primitivism Naïve art is characterized by a childlike simplicity Madhubani painting or Mithila Painting is a style of Indian painting, practiced in the Mithila region of Bihar state India. The Warli or Varli are an Indian Scheduled Tribe. These Indigenous people live in Talukas of the Thane, Nasik The term Outsider Art was coined by Art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English synonym for Art Brut (aʁ bʁu meaning "raw art" The American Folk Art Museum is the leading center for the study and enjoyment of American Folk art, as well as the work of international Self-taught artists ISBN 0-8212-2137-X

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Museums, festivals and organizations in the U. S.

Museums and collections in the U. K.

Folk Art

Indian folk art

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