O que é Naïf Art e quais os principal artists

Naive Art It is an artistic expression made by self-taught people, in which they express their vision of the world, generally regionalist, simple and poetic.

Assim, trabalham mainly with spontaneity and themes of the popular universe.

Or vocbulum naive French origin tem, meaning "ingênuo". Therefore, this manifestation can also be seen as an "innocent art".

It is still called "modern primitive art", pois tem as a characteristic of informal expression from a technical and traditional point of view.

Features da Art Naïf

There are some elements that can be found in many different productions of art naïf. Generally these artists, who have painting their favorite expression, display images with chromatic excesses, making use of intense cores.

There is still a preference for happy themes, meanwhile it is not a regra. You popular topics, portraying festivities and collective events also appear frequently.

In the absence of depth and perspective, it is noticed, two-dimensionality you give dinners, além two figurative traços and

exuberance in details. Além disso, a nature generally is portrayed in an idealized way.

We can also cite spontaneity, naivety, lack of sophistication and academic training.

Artists da Art Naïf

Many homens and women dedicate part of their lives to art naïf. For example, we are in the United States of America, Anna Mary Robertson (1860-1961), who raised or called Vovo Moses and had just na velhice reconhecimento.

Other North Americans dessa vertente são John Kane (1860-1934) and H. Poppin (1888-1947). Já na England, ha or artist Alfred Wallis (1855-1942).

Henri Rousseau

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a functionary of the alfândega who, in vague hours, wanted to paint. His art reflects simple life, with the creation of sharp images, with simple and pure colors, different from the sophisticated art of the artistic academic circle.

At the same time, modernist artists envisioned the possibility of creation with formalities, which led to a spontaneity and poetry that was quite clammy.

Seraphine louis

Séraphine Louis (1864-1946) is also known as Séraphine de Senlis. She was a humble woman, with few financial resources, who worked cleaning other people's homes.

His pastime for lazy hours was painting. The way to create fabrics with floral themes, bem colorful and detailed, always with references to nature.

Foi or researcher of art Wilhelm Uhde who discovered in 1902 and, from then on, his fabrics integrated into art shows. Currently, the artist's work is recognized all over the world, so much so that it was a film in 2008 telling her story, entitled Seraphine.

Louis Vivin

Louis Vivin (1861-1936) was a Frenchman who did not work and did not free time to dedicate himself to painting. I was also the German Wilhelm Uhde or first to see his talent and place his works in exhibitions.

His canvases trace everyday themes of the city, how the use of an imprecise perspective, or that gives dinner an innocent character. As two years passed and the recognition, Vivin managed to leave or formal work and live the art.

Naive Art No brazil

Chico da Silva

Francisco Domingos da Silva (1910-1985) born in Acre and in Ceará. Semi-illiterate, he worked in various trades, while practicing his art painting fishermen's houses in Fortaleza.

In the 1940s, he received encouragement from Jean Pierre Chabloz, a Swiss painter, and went on to delve into paintings and work. The themes of his fabrics vary from dragons, serials, mythical figures and other dinners that permeate his imagination.

He was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for three years during this period of production, returning to paint at the end of his life, in 1981.

Djanira

An artist Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914-1979) born in the interior of São Paulo. In 1937 she began to draw and paint, when she was hospitalized for tuberculosis in a sanatorium in São José dos Campos.

In the 40's she began to coexist with modern artists and intensified her production. The artist presents a work that mixes regionalism and religiosity, apart from his memories, the fruit of his past as a worker in the field.

The writer Jorge Amado once defined Djanira's work as follows:

Djanira traz o Brasil em suas mãos, her ciência é a do povo, know that this heart open to the landscape, to cor, to perfume, to joys, dores and hopes, two Brazilians.

Being one of the great painters of nossa terra, she is more than that, she is her own terra, or chão onde growing as plantations, or terreiro da macumba, as machines of fiação, or homem resisting misery. Each of her fabrics is a little bit of Brazil.

Mestre Vitalino

Vitalino Pereira dos Santos (1909 -1963) was a Pernambuco native who dedicated himself to popular art, especially ceramics, but also music.

His country was lavradores and Vitalino, when he grew up, he used to stick leftovers of clay that his mãe used to produce useful items and eat them modelava small animals and other figures.

Assim, he continued to work or mud, but only in 1947 his work became known, from an exhibition. His work expresses the universe of the sertanejo of the Northeast region, with figures of cangaceiros, animals and families.

He is two popular Brazilian artists of greater recognition, with works exhibited by MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo), Museu do Louvre, in Paris, within other institutions.

Origin gives Naive Art

Despite always having been loving artists, or the principle of style naive It shapes how it was conceived is related to the French artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910).

Esse painter exhibits some fabrics no Salão dos Independentes In 1886, na França, and obtain or reconfirmation of some two more renowned artists, such as Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Léger (1881-1955) and Joan Miró (1893-1983).

Modernists are impressed with how Rousseau solves aesthetic questions with a formal education. Its tinham canvases have a simple and poetic vigor, with "childish" authenticity, exposing themes of popular context.

As people who practice their art as hobby It is customary to be referred to as "Sunday painters", and also like Rousseau, who are not committed to the traditions, making more free paintings in accordance with the reality of the "common home".

By chance, this way of painting ends up influencing other artists, who in a certain way renounce Technical and theoretical precedent, looking for the understanding of all the public, especially of simple people.

An important nome for or reconhecimento da naive art Foi Wilhelm Uhde (1874 - 1947), German art critic who, in 1928, promoted the first exhibition of style in Paris.

Integraram to show: Rousseau, Luis Vivin (1861-1936), Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), André Bauchant (1837-1938) and Camille Bombois (1883-1910).

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