My work has been called naive which at first I thought was a bad thing as I had never heard the term before but the more I looked into it I realised that it wasn’t and I had heard of some of the artist associated with the term, Henri Rousseau being the main one who I will discuss in another post.
Naive art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. While many naive artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training, this is often not true.
I always knew my painting style wasn’t realistic enough yet i still tried to make my animals as realistic as i could, but it never seem to work. Now i know that there is nothing wrong with the way I paint, I have accepted that my work right now isn’t going to look realistic in the way I would of wanted it to. My work has a child like feel to it but i have no come to like the way my paintings look, yet you can still tell what each animal I’ve painted is.
These two images are examples of naive art from two naive artists, Hoosick Falls, N.Y. in Winter is by an artist known as Grandma Moses (1860 – 1961) and Holly Mountain II is by Horace Pippin. I like them, they are simple yet you can tell exactly what the artist has done, I like that about some art, it doesn’t have to have so much detail to get the point across, I feel that about my work, even though before I tried to get so much detail in my work I realised I didn’t need to do that and have found that I am liking my work more.
