Where do the terms “Primitive” and “Tribal” sit in our art lexicon? For the past few years I have understood these both as pejorative terms, but have consistently seen the labels applied to ...

I received an email from Nasser and Co. in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive” and “tribal” on their façade ...

Miss Willson is at least 150 years old. If she ever died, nobody knows when or where. If she ever had a first name, nobody knows what it was. About all that remains of Miss Willson is 20 primitive ...

The exhibition which the Museum of Modern Art has mounted this fall under the title, “‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art,” is an event of unusual interest. 1 Even before one has entered the exhibition ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Like many artists, Joni Fizur’s craft is inspired by her life experience.

To attract rural art lovers to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia last week, fair officials held a contest for amateur painters, got Austin Faricy, professor of esthetics at Stephens College (for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...

Two exhibitions of objects of art are being arranged for this year, which will be of no little scientific, as well as aesthetic, interest. Of these, the first will illustrate the art of primitive ...

LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s oldest known cave paintings were made by Neanderthals, not modern humans, suggesting our extinct cousins were far from being uncultured brutes. A high-tech analysis of ...