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vernacular art

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Noun1.vernacular art - a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artistsvernacular art - a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists
naive art, outsider art, primitive art, self-taught art
genre - a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
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He had worked mostly in black and white until he encountered the vernacular art of Tunisia, which was to transform his career.
Bending art history by Freund, Charles Paul / Reason
explores the construction of the lay reader and the lay reading experience in late medieval vernacular art and literature through a case study of Guillaume (1300-77).
Controlling readers; Guillaume de Machaut and his late medieval ... by Reference & Research Book News
In any case, that the Wireman's work was discovered in 1982, the same year that the Corcoran Gallery of Art's "Black Folk Art in America: 1930-1980" exhibition sparked widespread interest in African-American vernacular art, facilitated the oeuvre's rapid acceptance into that particular canon.
Philadelphia Wireman: Matthew Marks Gallery by Borum, Jenifer P. / Artforum International
 
 
 
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