Concepts and Movements
Folk Art
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Art and craft made within a community's living tradition rather than the academy: weathervanes, quilts, carved figures, painted furniture, decorated utility. Its makers are often untrained and sometimes unnamed, and its study treats the household object as a carrier of culture.
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OriginThe concept of folk art as a distinct category is a nineteenth-century one. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Folk Art (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead sectionQuote, Lead section
The concept of folk art is a distinctly 19th-century one.
1. Folk Art (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationMaterials, forms, and crafts sectionQuote, Materials, forms, and crafts section
Folk art is designed in different shapes, sizes and forms. It traditionally uses the materials which are at hand in the locality and reproduces familiar shapes and forms.
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