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FOLK ART is also referred to as SELF-TAUGHT ART, OUTSIDER ART and in some cases MEMORY ART. It includes paintings, sculptures, and pottery; some being anonymous works. “For a long time this art has been kept out of the “main-stream”art community, says Folk Fest, Atlanta Show Promoter Steve Slotin of Buford, Georgia. “Self-taught art is the most important visual culture America has ever produced.”
Many of the world’s most important folk artists are from the Southern United States which has become the “Hub of Folk Art.” Folk Art must not be confused with country crafts, duck decoys or split-cane baskets. Folk Art is a highly personal art form. Folk Art is religious inspired paintings, landscapes, country scenes, crude tin cut-outs, wood-relief carvings and environmental sculpture gardens created from refuse and other found objects.
Self-taught artists do not seek out the art world, collectors and dealers passionately seek them out. The art is produced by untrained people who draw on their culture, experiences and surroundings in an isolated world, made with a true, untutored, creative passion. Folk Art is raw, expressive, unconventional, nonconforming, genuine and truly original. Artistically acclaimed acceptance has caused this art form to blossom. Its existence is threatened by the inevitable urbanization and population of former rural areas.
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