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Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art.
Antique folk art is distinguished from traditional art in that while it is collected today based mostly on its artistic merit; it was never intended as a category to be art for art's sake. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "whimsical" antiques.
Other terms that overlap with folk art are naïve art, popular art, outsider art, traditional art and even working class art. As you would expect, all these terms have different connotations; but they are all at times used interchangeably with the term folk art, for which a satisfactory definition has proven hard to come by.
Folk Art
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the day the ny times...
bras + horn + copper...
my studio
The Holy Family
The Light of the Wor...
Jesus and His Mother
St. Joseph
St. Mary the Virgin
Rejoice!
Christ the Savior is...
Lying in a Manger
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the brass heart + bl...
the shelving unit at...
metal and thread's w...
King
the copper piece der...
Our Lady, Virgin of...
Our Lady, Virgin of...
the wooden louis zuf...
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a view of the mantle...
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- bafiedel bafiedel Jun 20, 2008 @ 7:57 pm
- There's nothing as warm and friendly as folk art. You've made a nice collection of art here.
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