#primitive art

[palaeosinensis]

Cave art inspired deer herd.

#Art #drawing #cave art #primitive art #pleistocene #ice age #digital art #deer #doe #buck #fawn #herd #nature #gold #palaeo #palaeosinensis #illustration #red #grass #grassland

[halloweentrickortreat]

Art by Matthew Kirscht 🎃

#halloween #autumn #fall #spooky #october #art #vintage #painting #primitive art #pumpkin

[nobrashfestivity]

William H Hawkins, Atlas Building

#william hawkins #william h hawkins #outsider art #primitive art

[engelart]

“Feisty”, 2005 by Norman Engel

#contemporary art #contemporary painting #Norman Engel #Texas artist #southwest art #expressionism #neo expressionism #folk art #folk art painting #naive art #outsider art #modern art #painting #sold #primitive art

[elecktrum]

My whole sense of humor in one image.

Cross stitch design by NightSpiritStudio.

#cross stitch #counted cross stitch #war of the worlds #ufo #primitive art #space invaders #shitpost

[domusinluna]

Honestly in love with this Paracas painted jar, Peru, 650-150 B.C. 

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#antique jar #peruvian art #peruvian jar #peru #paracas #Ocucaje #primitive art #primitive jar #ceramics #primitive ceramics #old ceramic

[the-cricket-chirps]

Henri Rousseau, The Waterfall, 1910

Henri Rousseau, Tropical Forest with Apes and Snake, 1910

#henri rousseau #landscape #landscape aesthetic #landscape painting #apes #snakes #waterfalls #landscape painter #french art #naive art #naive painting #primitive art #primitivism #primitive painting #post impressionism #post impressionist art #art on tumblr #animals in art #beautiful animals #aesthetic #beauty #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr

[xandra-nova]

my work is in a private collection in Kyiv now ❤️🖤.

#anti-art #collage #primitive art #crass #anarcho punk #nihilism #cutouts #papercut #analog collage #paper collage

[amountoverlaps]

Aujourd'hui

2024

#collage #art #art on paper #abstract #illustration #collage art #mixed media #primitive art #cutout

[pagansphinx]

Henri Rousseau (French, 1844-1910) • The Football Players • 1908 • Guggenheim Museum, New York City

#art #painting #fine art #art history #henri rousseau #french artist #favorite painter #naïve art #primitive art #artworks i've seen #museum aesthetic #guggenheim #early 20th century european art #post-impressionist #pagan sphinx art blog #art blog #artwork

[mcromwell]

A ‘Primitive Wiggle’ Art Style Retrospective

In 2020, I intentionally developed a simplified art style to avoid burnout and explore new techniques: The Primitive Wiggles! Let's have a Wiggles Retrospective!

This was the first painting attempting a simpler style, “Coyote Joy”. From its success, I developed the style further to be a utility that fit my personal art-making habits and desires. 

And here is the first sketchbook page of experiments! Initially, the Wiggles had much smaller ears, a more blunt muzzle, outlined shoulders. They had eyebrows, too! You can see on these pages I’m attempting to get muzzle, paw, and eye shapes down. 

A few more attempts and we are getting somewhere with the consistency. I was just drawing them over and over thinking about 1) ease of execution and 2) versatility of shapes/poses. 

And finally we have more of a solidified paw shape: muppet hands. (It was the right choice.) 

At the time, I drew this and went "YES, THIS is what I'm going for" and I still like her even now! Some small things are different, like the Wiggles almost never get 2 sets of whiskers anymore, but she still holds up. Note how bushy their tails started out-- nowadays they’re way longer, skinnier, like a coyote and not a fox. 

Some other things that changed: notice how not every one of them has eyelashes. The eyelashes became something I'm weirdly insistent on-- they're just cuter that way!! (Pieces from 2020) 

The style used to be defined by one particular technique. But now, I let the Wiggles exist in many forms! Being flexible is part of their point-- make art no matter what, no matter when, with any materials available. (Pieces from 2022) 

Just look at the difference in snoot length alone. (Top: 2020, bottom: 2022) I consciously made their snoots longer and their ears bigger because I want them to lean more COYOTE. 

I would say some inspirations for the Wiggles would have to be Keith Haring (simplicity, fun, bold lines) and Rick Bartow (how he handles texture/negative space and the blurring of lines between abstracted and representational). The style was also sort of inspired by cave art, for philosophical reasons. 

Basically, I was burnt out with my work. I wanted to make art, but every time I tried, I hated it. Adding another style to my repertoire was liberating. The constraints and considerations that held me back with my main style were no longer there. And now that I have the Wiggles, my other styles don’t bum me out as much, I just get to make art however it suits me best at the time. (I have mental health struggles that put me at highs and lows quite rapidly, so this was sort of a necessity if I was to make art my full-time gig, which I did in summer 2020. The Wiggles were born in December 2020.) 

I made the Wiggles by myself and FOR myself. (I am quite attached to them. ♥) They gave me permission to have fun, made me overthink less, and break out of self-imposed restrictions that hindered my creativity. They've come a hell of a long way since 2020, and I have, too! 

I hope you enjoyed this Wiggles Retrospective. May they inspire you to play, experiment, and step out of comfort zones!  Take a leap of faith-- be WILD! Be NONSENSICAL! AND MAKE SOME WEIRD ART!! 

#primitive wiggles #maranda cromwell #marandart #m cromwell #mcromwell #artists on tumblr #art style #art styles #style #style development #art progress #artist #coyote #primitive art #naive art #stylized #multimedia #interdisciplinary #long post

[timmurleyart]

The new tenants. 🏙🌃🟧🟨🟥(mixed media collage)🏢

#de kooning #pablo picasso #picasso #basquiat #jean michel basquiat #art brut #naive art #primitive art #keith haring #outsider art #folk art #abstract face #pop art #andy warhol #rent #real estate #apartment buildings #urban planning #public housing #tenant #tenants #collage art #contemporary art #street art #bronx #williamsburg #staten island #oil stick #modern art #whitney museum

[eirene]

The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897 Henri Rousseau

#Henri Rousseau #french art #1890s #19th century #art #painting #art history #animals #desert #night #post impressionism #primitive art

[the-cricket-chirps]

Pegeen Vail, Untitled, 1945

#pegeen vail #pegeen vail guggenheim #american painter #american artist #primitive art #primitive painting #primitive #naive art #naive painting #art on tumblr #surrealist #surrealism #aesthetic #beauty #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #tumblrstyle #artists on tumblr