American Folk Art
Appreciation of American Folk Art
Created by hand by untrained artists, Folk art has a combination of naturalness and simplicity and is highly collectible today. The first real appreciation of American folk art began during the 1920s when artists, returning from World War I, began to search for what was American about American art. Since that time, art collectors and scholars have attempted to identify and classify folk art, which at different times has been called naive art, tramp art, amateur art, artisan art, pioneer art, ...

Making Folk Art Decoys
Handcrafted "Flattie" Silhouette Decoys
Back in the day of market hunters, simple silhouette decoys made from flat pieces of wood were used to hunt shorebirds, crows, pigeons, waterfowl and just about anything that flew. Often referred to as "flatties", the silhouette style of decoys were lightweight, easy to store and to transport - and they were very effective at attracting birds within range of the gunners lying in wait. Most of the flattie decoys were primitive and constructed simply from pieces of cedar and soft pine, then ha...

Whimsical Folk Art
Folk Art As A Hobby
Welcome! This lens is about one of my favorite hobbies - folk art. Folk Art is distinguished from traditional art in that while it is collected today based mostly on its artistic merit, it was never intended as a category to be art for arts sake. Examples include: weather vanes, old store signs, carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible and whimsical antiques. The following ar...

Best Folk art
Folk art
Welcome to the best folk art page. Folk art is becoming an increasingly popular art movement. Folk art varies vastly in appearance and has been made famous by untrained painters and artists. Among the most popular American folk artists was Grandma Moses who began painting in her seventies. It ofter overlaps with naive art and primitive art. My name is Gordon Bruce and I am a Scottish folk art painter. There are many great works of art available on the internet today by folk artists around the...

Outsider Folk Art - A Unique Style Of Art!
Outsider Art, Visionary Art, Raw Art, & Folk Art...
I've just recently discovered a way of expressing myself on canvas or whatever medium I decide to paint on! It's a most unique style of art called "Outsider Art" or "Folk Art", which helps me to connect to "my roots" - the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Home of the "gullah" language and food indigenous to the area. Also called Visionary Art, the only word I can think of to describe it is "whimsical" and certainly a great way to express yourself! Whatever you want to call it, "Outsider Art",...

(The Balloon Sellers)
The Balloon Sellers
from my original primitive naive painting.This is one of over1000 that can be viewed and or purchased on many items such as prints -mugs- aprons- greetings cards-hats-bumper stickers- magnets-tee-shirts-mousepads  etc etc at     http://www.zazzle.co.uk/sword42 and www.Artwanted.com/SWORD