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Primitive art

noun

A genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists. Synonyms: naive art, outsider art, self-taught art, vernacular art.

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... centuries of the history of the red man in America before the coming of the Europeans we know very little indeed. Very few of the tribes possessed even a primitive art of writing. It is true that the Aztecs of Mexico, and the ancient Toltecs who preceded them, understood how to write in pictures, and that, by this means, they preserved some record of their rulers and of the great ...

— The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada • Stephen Leacock

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... purposes and desires, runs through all the history of art and religion and also through history itself. Religion is based upon the desire to exert and to feel power, and it is the manifest and indeed the expressly acknowledged purpose of all primitive art, and is concealed and implied in all later art. Art is practical, an effort to realize a sense of power, to become a god (just as in his motive of play the child desires more than anything else to realize himself as a man), to influence ...

— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge

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