Primitivism

Today at the National Gallery we studied Primitivism in groups. Here is my summary of the questions.

Primitivism is a very controversial subject as it has so many different styles to portray this way of art some of the characteristics include the subject being unaware of the artist with no eye contact, Abstraction of the figure and disfigured bodies, sexuality, flatness and some even made to be portrayed that a child has done the painting.

There is a big difference between Primitive and Primitivism. Primitive refers to the harsh lifestyle of indigenous people and primitivism is the style of art rebelling against the modernist style art movement.

I found a photograph in the National Gallery that used Primitivism.
Eduardo Masserre - Woman Planting Rice 1934 -
I couldn't find a digital version of this photograph as it is very old. The photograph uses primitivism in the way of the subject appears to be unaware of the artist taking the photo with no eye contact. The subject is also a indigenous phillipino woman from the poor lower class as you can tell by her job and her clothes

rhys =]