Sentences with phrase «faux naif»
Handler's faux naif style is in the tradition of 20th century artists such as Paul Klee, who reformed art's staid conventions of beauty by returning to supposed primal or elementary beginnings.
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These collage - style paintings and early «assemblages» (a term dating from the early 1950s, when the French faux naif artist Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 85) described his collages of butterfly wings, as «assemblages d'empreintes») were stepping - stones to Rauschenberg's famous «Combine» series.
Read about the curious faux naif art and those creating it today.
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The childlike quality of the markmaking is due to an expertise so superb that it is neither primitivistic, nor faux - naif but looks as if it just happened that way.
Forget the wilfully crude and faux - naif early works elsewhere in the first gallery: Swamped is the true starting point of this exhibition.
It emerges, rather than returns to the vagina, as in Terribly wrong, which has its faux - naif print - reversed lettering reproduced here again here in thread, tied up on the back of the blanket, reinforcing its deliberateness.
Known best for his politically wry faux - naif paintings, Roger Brown is associated with the Chicago Imagists who were trained at the Chicago Institute of Art during the late 1960s.