Visionary art celebrates the work of self-taught artists whose primitive, naive style, often studded with found objects, springs from a personal rather than a commercial vision.
The artist William Henry Johnson (1901 70) received recognition for his paintings in the so-called primitive style.
In his view, the forms of consciousness that psychedelics unleash are regressions to a more "primitive style of cognition".
He avoided virtuosity and made no attempt to soften the stiffness of his archaic, almost primitive style of drawing.
After a few 'goofs,' I turned out the basket, which was a bit on the primitive style".
His house was built in the same primitive style as those in San Pacho, but with incongruous touches: windows made of wine bottles, a fresco copied from Gauguin.
Sometimes, a whimsical, even primitive, style suits an idea best, but other times bravura, top-of-the-line draftsmanship is what's wanted.
The suite's flowing sequence of seven movements treats Mesoamerican myths and its brutally raw, primitive style recalls the impact of Stravinsky and Bartók at their most violent.
"Popular Transport," Jose Fuster's colorful painting in a primitive style, shows people on the back of an elongated, docile carton-like alligator.
One article noted a "circle of expensive automobiles surrounding an open campfire, where the bronzed and brightly blanketed owners are cooking meat in the primitive style".
