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Folk Art first arose to notice in the early 1940's, starting with the work of Grandma Moses, whose paintings were discovered by a collector while being displayed in a drugstore window. Folk art is everything that "high" art is not, and was at first practiced by those, primarily the poor and uneducated, who were unlikely to have access to education in traditional art techniques, design, composition, and perspective. It is exactly the primitiveness and naiveness of folk art that is its charm, however. Folk art has become so popular that it is no longer just the culturally naive who produce it -- one of the more prominant artists working in the "folk" style today is Warren Kimble, who received a degree in fine art at Syracuse University. Other important folk artists include Carol Dyer, Maud Lewis, and Chris Palmer.
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Grandma Moses was born in 1860, as Anna Mary Robertson, in Greenwich, New York, and died in 1961, at the age of 101. She started painting in the 1930s in her 70s, after arthritis forced her to quit embroidery. In 1938 an art collector discovered her work, displayed in a drugstore window, after which her paintings were exhibited in a New York gallery. She went on to become the most celebrated of the folk artists. [More...]
Carol Dyer was born in 1913 in Boston, Massachussets. She was introduced to art as a child by her aunt, who owned a gallery, but had little formal art training. Unlike most other folk artists, who tend to focus on rural scenes, Dyer's paintings are more likely to be cityscapes or townscapes depicted as they might have looked around the turn of the 19th century. Living now in Maryland, she has been involved in a national project, painting historic seaports for the Mystic Seaport Museum. [More...]
Warren Kimble was born in New Jersey and received a fine arts degree at Syracuse University. After working as an art teacher at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont, he took up painting full-time in 1983. He's lived and painted for over 30 years in Brandon, Vermont. He's been very successful, with licensing agreements to reproduce and commercially utilize his art bringing in over $100 million a year. [More...]
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References & Sources
- Folk Art by Artcyclopedia.com.
- Folk Art by Wikipedia.com.
- Folk Art by ArtLex.
- Folk-Art.com (Southern Heart Gallery).
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