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Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture.
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Folk art describes a wide range of objects that reflect the craft traditions and traditional social values of various social groups. Folk art is generally produced by people who have little or no academic artistic training, nor a desire to emulate "fine art", and use established techniques and styles of a particular region or culture. Along with painting, sculpture, and other decorative art forms, some also consider utilitarian objects such as tools and costume as folk art.
Decorative value
Antique 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 art’s sake. Examples include: weathervanes, old store signs and carved figures, itinerant portraits, carousel horses, fire buckets, painted game boards, cast iron doorstops and many other similar lines of highly collectible "whimsical" antiques.
Characteristics
Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and, in many cases, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" or "fine art" to the society's art patrons. On the other hand, many 18th and 19th century American folk art painters made their living by their work, including itinerant portrait painters, some of whom produced large bodies of work.
Other terms that overlap with folk art are naïve art, Pop art, outsider art, traditional art, "self-taught" art and even "working class" art. As one might expect, all these terms have different connotations; but they are all at times used interchangeably with the term folk art, for which a satisfactory definition has proven hard to come by.
Noted folk artists
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External links
Museums, festivals and organizations in the U.S.
Museums and collections in the U.K.
- has the largest collection of British folk art in the country, acquired for the gallery in 1993 to prevent it being split up and sold abroad
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Folk Art
- Organization supporting Mexican artisans and promoting unique handmade work.
- Santa Fe, New Mexico museum with a large collection of folk art from around the world.
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- The website for a residential craft community located in upstate New York, specializing in folk art.
- The de facto international collectors group.
- The website for folk art of today and yesterday.
France Midi Canal
- One man's work on the Canal du Midi
Indian folk art
Research resources
- An interactive exploration of folk arts in Florida.
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- An adjudicated listing of artists (basketmakers, potters, quilters, storytellers, blues and bluegrass artists) compiled by Southern Arts Federation
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- Images, biographies and forums devoted to Canadian folk art.
- Articles, handmade embroideries dedicated to the Hungarian folk art.
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