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Folk Art

Folk Art Article

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.

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.

Characteristically folk art is not influenced by movements in academic or fine art circles, and for the most part, folk art excludes works executed by professional artists and sold as "high art" or "fine art" to the society's art patrons.

The turn of the 21st century saw an increase in work by self-taught folk artists, possibly because of the growing number of retired people with time to spend on new ventures. This 'grassroots art' movement is most visible in the states of Kansas and Wisconsin. The movement has been popularized on public television by the show Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations produced by KCPT in Kansas City, Missouri.

Other terms that overlap with folk art are naive art, popular art, outsider art, traditional art and even working class art. As you would 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.


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Authentic hand carved duo candle holder with 22 devil f
$100.00
2.8" Chinese HongShan Agate Pendant *Arrowhead *
$3.50
NEPAL Mithila Painting MIRROR Women Tribal Folk Art
$12.99
Wysocki PLEASANT SUNDAY swan peacock folk art print
$5.99
chinese Han dynasty dragon jade disk Bi
$15.00
Wysocki BUDZEN'S ROADSIDE FOOD STAND folk art print
$5.99
2.2" Chinese HongShan Agate Pendant *Bird*
$3.50
Charles Wysocki SLEEPY TOWN WEST western folk art print
$5.99
2.8" Chinese HongShan Crystal Pendant *Person*
$3.50
FoLk ArT tOy - DELIGHTFUL
$34.95
2.8" Rare HongShan Red Crystal Pendant *ShengZhiQi*
$3.50
Folk Art picture of family going to church on sunday
$0.99
ACEO PRINT * Rainbow Butterfly #538 * Lynne Neuman EBSQ
$4.99
2.6" Chinese HongShan Crystal Pendant *Skull*
$3.50
2.2" Chinese HongShan Crystal Pendant *Bird*
$3.50
Black Folk Art Print "Old Home House"
$0.99
Charles Wysocki NEW ENGLAND WEDDING folk art print
$4.99
Little Wooden Bench Hand Made Barn Wood Folk Art? SEE!
$3.00
Wysocki BANG BOOM BAM POW firework store folk art print
$5.99
Charles Wysocki THE BARN RAISERS folk art print
$5.99
Charles Wysocki CHILDHOOD MEMORIES folk art print
$5.99
Superb 1817 New Hampshire Sampler
$40.50
2.6" HongShan MiLa/Amber Pendant *Bird*
$4.50
Charles Wysocki I LOVE AMERICA folk art print
$4.99
Charles Wysocki WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM folk art print
$5.99
EARLY ANTIQUE BEE SKEP~ONCE ACTIVE~STRAW BASKET HIVE
$87.89
1.8" Rare HongShan Red Crystal Pendant *Skull*
$3.50
Charles Wysocki BURMA RD folk art print
$5.99
2.6" HongShan Coral Pendant *Person*
$4.50
Dan C folk art outsider pop painting Red Shell Turtle
$9.95
Mini carved wooden shoes, 1925
$9.99
Original Folk Art Painting Acrylic Wood Boy Girl Love
$29.95
Norwegian Rosemaling Velkommen Welcome Plaques
$18.00
ANTIQUE FOLK TRAMP ART ARTS CRAFTS CARVED PICTURE FRAME
$9.99
Honeysuckle & Birds Peruvian Hand Carved Gourd Art NEW
$19.90
chinese Han dynasty bird jade disk Bi
$12.00
~~STEPBACK CUPBOARD~~PAINTED AFTER JOHANNES SPITLER~~
$500.00
chinese Ming dynasty white jade dragon Bi
$15.00
Amazing Old American TRAMP ART Candle Box w/HEART
$134.95
Charles Wysocki THE CHIEF Indian folk art print
$4.99
Charles Wysocki RACING AT THE GREEN STAR folk art print
$5.99
3.4" Rare HongShan Red Crystal Pendant *Bird*
$3.50
chinese Han dynasty white jade tiger statue (in pair)
$78.00
SMALL PAINTED WOODEN TOLEWARE TRAY FRUIT STILL LIFE
$9.99
4.0" HongShan MiLa/Amber Pendant *C-Dragon*
$8.50
2.8" Chinese HongShan Crystal Pendant *ShengZhiQi*
$3.50
2.0" Chinese HongShan Agate Pendant *Dragon*
$3.50
Jane Wooster Scott BEACON ON BEACH Framed Art + Book
$125.00
FoLk ArT tOy - DELIGHTFUL
$34.95
2.8" Chinese HongShan Crystal Pendant *Tortoise*
$3.50
2.7" Rare HongShan Red Crystal Pendant *ShengZhiQi*
$3.50
Wysocki SUNSET HILLS TEXAS WILDCATTERS folk art print
$4.99
3.6" HongShan Turquoise Pendant *2 Dragon*
$4.50
Charles Wysocki BUTTNERNUT FARMS folk art print
$5.99
Charles Wysocki INDIAN RUGS folk art print
$5.99
Mexican Cross - Black Cristo - Religious
$595.00
ANTIQUE Wooden Carved CANDY BOX Tramp Art 1900
$19.99
AFRICAN ART~ Head W/Gourd
$10.00
BLUE HERON MOSAIC PANEL Folk Art Glass Work 9x13" Exlnt
$19.67
ANTIQUE PRIMITIVE FOLK ART WOOD CAGE W/ WOODEN BIRD OLD
$99.99
2.4" HongShan Turquoise Pendant *Demigod*
$4.50
Primitive Cut Paper Framed Art Toddler Girl Framed NR
$4.99
NEPAL Mithila Painting MIRROR Women Tribal Folk Art
$9.99
Charles Wysocki BIRDS OF A FEATHER folk art print
$5.99
Charles Wysocki SMOOTH TALKER folk art print
$5.99
chinese Han dynasty white jade disk Bi
$12.00
ANTIQUE HAND MADE FOLK ART WORK EARLY 1900
$150.00
3.6" Chinese HongShan Agate Pendant *Beast*
$3.50
WISCONSIN FALL FOLK ART JERSEY COWS COLLIE by J. CHENEY
$19.00
Charles Wysocki AMISH MEETING folk art print
$5.99
Antique Maryland Folk Art Painting Virginia Bradenbaugh
$150.00
Norwegian Rosemaling Step Stool
$38.00
Folk Art Carved wooden Whimsey
$9.99
RARE ESTATE PRIMITIVE PAINTED TRAMP ART SEWING BOX
$224.99
Charles Wysocki HONEST ABE Lincoln folk art print
$5.99
chinese Ming dynasty white jade dragon Pei
$15.00
chinese Ming dynasty jade beast statue
$24.99
chinese Han dynasty white jade tiger statue (in pair)
$78.00
2.7" Rare HongShan Red Crystal Pendant *Goat Head*
$3.50
Jane Wooster Scott AMERICAN JUBILEE Signed Art Book
$24.99
Girl Survives Terrible Illness Tin Retablo Ex Voto
$50.00
Charles Wysocki FOURTH OF JULY 1981 folk art print
$5.99
Charles Wysocki VISITING church folk art print
$4.99
Folk Art Iron Worked Bowl w/ glass leaves
$14.99
Charles Wysocki CAPE COD STAR folk art print
$5.99
EARLY FOLK ART PAINTED WOMAN WHIRLIGIG
$9.99
Wysocki AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE pilgrim folkart print
$4.99
Religious black folk art print,Big Meeting At Mt.Cilla.
$5.00
chinese Ming dynasty white jade dragon Bi
$18.00
Charles Wysocki THE FARM folk art print
$5.99
chinese Ming dynasty double dragon jade bangle
$18.00
Vintage Wooden Carved Black Forest Women German FolkArt
$9.99
Charles Wysocki WARP IN THE WIND BAY folk art print
$4.99
Wysocki SLEEPY TOWN WEST western America folk art print
$4.99
Charles Wysocki LIBERTY STAR FARMS folk art print
$5.99
2.2" Chinese HongShan Agate Pendant *Pig Dragon+Cicada*
$3.50
Charles Wysocki DOCKSIDE MARRIAGE folk art print
$5.99
2 primitive folk US original paintings on wood NO RESER
$8.99
Vintage Wooden Carved Black Forest Man German Folk Art
$9.99
Charles Wysocki SHOPS AND BUGGIES folk art print
$5.99