Crossword clues for primitivism
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being primitive 2 The opinion that life was better or more moral among primitive peoples, or among children, and has deteriorated with civilization 3 Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms
WordNet
n. a wild or unrefined state [syn: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness]
a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children
Wikipedia
Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics. Borrowings from primitive art has been important to the development of modern art.
The term "primitivism" is often applied to other professional painters working in the style of naïve or folk art like Henri Rousseau, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee and others.
Usage examples of "primitivism".
We find such primitivism enchanting because it often evokes a people who really believe in magic.
We are aesthetically and emotionally drawn to primitivism, but not economically or politically.
They also believed in reducing the city to total primitivism, only they were willing to do it in less painful stages.
Their philosophy seems to be a mix of pre-Liberation radical feminism and the environmental primitivism of the eighties.
I watch, amazed, through the shards of plastiglass in an abandoned storage room, my fingers at my mouth, teeth to nails, reverting to primitivism as the young people overpower the robo-cop by the airlock.
For all the relative primitivism of its technology, Grayson had maintained a large-scale space presence for more than half a millennium.
Many JNA officers brought the primitivism and propensity for violence that they began to show from their home regions -- most were from the Dinaric mountains.
Church said that the people who had checked out during the water crisis were coming back from the Francis Drake, Casa Encantada, Hogan's Fancy, and Apache Marina, annoyed by primitivisms they had encountered there, and lured by the food, the location, and the beaches of Paperman's hotel.
In that primitivism was her great strength, for it allowed the back door of her mind to keep open, as it were, to the rumor and movement of ancestral powers and instinctive agencies.