Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) was a successful painter and printmaker in the 19th Century. Born in Nantes, a port city in ...

Works from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts illustrate a nation's uneasy progress through the lens of one of the ...

Mallen, E. (2025) Pablo Picasso’s 1906-1907 Transformation: from the “Primitive” to the “Rational”. Advances in Historical ...

The Prime Decades. Primitive American painters have flourished from the time of the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks (Peaceable Kingdom) to Grandma Moses, but their heyday was between those two ...

Jose Antonio Velasquez was a self-taught Honduran artist. His work depicts typical Honduran street scenes, distinctly stylized and frequently portrayed from a high vantage point and rendered in the ...

Jose Antonio Velasquez was a self-taught Honduran artist. His work depicts typical Honduran street scenes, distinctly stylized and frequently portrayed from a high vantage point and rendered in the ...

“You see,” he says, “I never studied painting. When I decided to paint, I started the way primitive painters do, just trying to paint it like it is.” Painting it like it is does not mean ...

For the European painters of the early nineteen hundreds, after their first Romantic encounter with primitive art, took up an approach to it on purely analytical grounds.

Still, the city’s most creative experience is in St Bavo’s Cathedral, home to the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, an eerily realistic 15th century altarpiece restored in rich jewel hues that ...

UK indie cult icons Felt are reissuing their classic 1985 single “Primitive Painters,” a duet between frontman Lawrence and Cocteau Twins‘ Elizabeth Fraser, this Friday as a 10″ single. It ...