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Primitivism

noun

A wild or unrefined state. Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness.

A genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children.

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"Primitivism" Quotes from Famous Books

... pillars. Free at last from the densely growing trees, Wrayson, for the first time during his long climb, caught an uninterrupted view of the magnificent panorama below. A land of hills, of black forests and shining rivers; a land uncultivated but rich in promise, magnificent in its primitivism. It was a wonderful dwelling this, of which the owner, springing down from the veranda, was now on his way to meet ...

— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... in. At least, this is roughly the theory to which a study of the two great art developments of the past, in Greece and Italy, would seem to point. And this theory is the excuse for all the attempts at primitivism of which we ...

— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed