primitivism in English

noun
1
a belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature.
The inclusion of early paintings and drawings, produced shortly after her graduation from Yale in 1959, provides a sense of her beginnings as a young artist in awe of Abstract Expressionism and the primitivism of Jean Dubuffet.
2
unsophisticated behavior that is unaffected by objective reasoning.
Plagued by tribal warfare, autocratic and murderous government, and an inefficient and corruption - ridden economy, it is trapped on the bloody borderland between primitivism and civilization.
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1. 7 synonyms for Crudeness: crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness, gaucheness, crudity, roughness

2. ‘The Artillerymen’ was created in 1893 by Henri Rousseau in Naïve Art (Primitivism) style

3. 27 The Primitivism is the exceptional one; its central principal is influential to other painting schools from Post- Impressionism , Fauvism to Cubism.

4. Synonyms: Crudeness; crudity; primitiveness; primitivism; rudeness Hypernyms ("Crudeness" is a kind of): natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)

5. Today various Bundlings of green anarchist thought have become diffuse and deeply integral in the broader anarchist movement and, despite some dramatically turning tides, primitivism still enjoys a significant influence

6. Crudeness: 1 n a wild or unrefined state Synonyms: crudity , primitiveness , primitivism , rudeness Type of: natural state , state of nature , wild a wild primitive state untouched by civilization n an unpolished unrefined quality “the Crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her” Synonyms: roughness Type of: inelegance the quality of lacking

7. Many are unconvincingly Antedated remakes in the various styles (Impressionism, "primitivism," Cubism, Futurism, etc.) the artist passed en route to his 1915 break-though; others are hybrids, blending the language of Renaissance portraiture with a kind of Art Deco version of Suprematism.

8. Crudity: 1 n an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement Synonyms: crudeness , gaucheness Type of: impoliteness a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage n a wild or unrefined state Synonyms: crudeness , primitiveness , primitivism , rudeness Type of: natural state , state of nature , wild a wild primitive