Meanings of primitive art in English

Other shows he curated also linked primitive art with the work of modern masters.

As prayers they are ritual, as surfaces decorated they are specimens of primitive art.

Penck has anthropological interests and certainly is highly aware of primitive art, even prehistoric art.

We still see a relic of this primitive art form in the Oberammergau Passion Play.

Yet it is not necessary to give primitive art a considerable place in a general aesthetics.

As a result we find it difficult to realize the simplicity and conservatism of primitive art.

Rhythmic gesture then, or dancing, is the most primitive art, and it is purely lyric, i.e.

In time would appear traps, weapons, tools, submarine agriculture, the blossoming of primitive art, the ritual of primitive religion.

The primitive art of all nations shows that it has taken the direction of symmetry about a vertical line.

In Smollett's time we must remember that Hellenic and primitive art, whether antique or medieval, were unknown or unappreciated.

But primitive art, which is a given fact to be interpreted, cannot ever become its own criterion of interpretation.

They stowed away the luggage with the deft capacity of men who have returned to the primitive art of using their hands.

Such is the case in primitive art; the maker of beauty is upheld and rewarded by a popular appreciation of her work-orhis.

Although slightly tinged with pedantism and preciosity, its freshness, its grace, its inspiration and sincerity, give it a flavour almost of primitive art.

The two men have in common a contagious sociability, a vast energy, a liking for modern art, and a consuming enthusiasm for primitive art.

She let the matter rest with him-thisman with great shoulders and firm hands, who knew the primitive art of "waiting on himself."