WordNet
n. a genre of art and outdoor constructions made by untrained artists who do not recognize themselves as artists [syn: outsider art, self-taught art, vernacular art, naive art]
Usage examples of "primitive art".
Walls, floor, and ceiling were plastered, and there was a fantastic variety of what were, to her artistic eye, highly authentic primitive art objects and paintings.
Zouga was enchanted by the frozen cavalcade of man and beast which covered the walls of the cave, and he had already determined to camp here so that he could have more time to study and record this treasure house of primitive art, when Robyn was calling him again.
While his hands worked with the bottles and the ice cubes, he studied the two pieces of primitive art that so starkly decorated the cream-colored wall in front of him.
Since I collected some of the best of the primitive art of Earthmen, I went to see Blake.
It was a magnificent and evocative work of primitive art, and the crowded auditorium rose as one person in spontaneous applause.
There they had still to wring a living from the bare soil, with minds unused to primitive art—.