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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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Chinese Blue Quartz Bracelet with 10 cicadas
$15.00
ORIGINAL OUTSIDER ART STRANGE UNUSUAL COLLAGE
$9.99
Chinese Jade flower-shaped Color Palette with pied magp
$7.50
Master Wood Block Art, Joseph Domjan,"Red Shepherd"
$1999.99
Splendid Chinese Jade Circle Ring "4 Dragons Motif"
$4.99
Chinese Ancient Jade wall Beast (c)
$0.99
ORIGINAL OUTSIDER ART STRANGE UNUSUAL COLLAGE
$9.99
Beautiful Flying Wood Duck Decoy by Ken Kirby
$219.00
Chinese Ancient Jade wall Beast (a)
$0.99
7.2" Chinese Jade/Nephrite uncommon Demigod Tutelary
$18.50
2 large Vintage tribal Folk Art Wood drinking goblets
$19.99
FRAMED REPRODUCTION SILHOUETTE MAN LADY COLONIAL DRESS
$5.99
Chinese Ancient Jade Culture"feng bei"
$0.99
Handmade Wood Inlay Marquetry Floral Picture Signed
$19.99
KunLun Jade/SPECIAL FLYING PHOENIX BI-565g
$12.88
CHINESE AGATE/EXQUISITE GOD OF LONGEVITY PENDANT-75g
$8.88
Chinese Qing Jade Fable Story--Phoenix Send LingZhi
$15.00
CHINESE XIUYAN JADE/EXQUISITE RUYI CARVED SHOU-105g
$8.88
Mose T Mose Tolliver ANGEL Folk Art Painting NR
$260.00
Folk Art Table Wood Inlaid Artist Signed W/Info -1975
$150.00
1209: Oil on canvas portrait of a woman, 19th c., 30 1/
$100.00
1270: Three silhouettes, 19th c., to include one full l
$100.00
1.5m long hand made double color Chinese dance silk fan
$9.20
Rules of Sex by Howard Finster Amazing Original Piece
$999.00
1268: M.A. Honeywell silhouette, mid 19th c., inscribed
$100.00
OLD ADVERTISING SILHOUETTE PICTURE & THERMOMETER~WORKS
$24.99
1406: Three Reading, Pennsylvania printed fraktur.
$50.00
1453: Three doll's chairs, late 19th/early 20th c., tal
$100.00
Chinese Jade Dragon
$32.00
Chinese Jade Bi With 2 Carp & Lotus & Shou(longevity) w
$7.50
Rare Chinese Jade Statue "Heaven Mouse"
$9.80
1250: Folk art house, late 19th c., having 2 human figu
$100.00
6.3" Chinese Jade/Nephrite wonderful Demigod Tutelary
$18.50
Unique Monogram Reflector Architectural Letter b
$9.99
Chinese Jade uncommon & wonderful Demijohn with dragon
$46.00
RARE CARVED STONE BEE SKEP 21" HIGH
$700.00
Pennsylvania Folk Art,pottery,Painted Furniture Catalog
$9.95
Folk Art Bucking Bronco/Cowboy Weathervane Style Art
$9.99
CANADA CARVER WRAGGS BURRELL RED HEAD HEN DUCK DECOY
$79.99
Two Big Old Wooden Indian Juggling Pins/Clubs, Patina!!
$45.00
1269: Two silhouettes, early 19th c., one of a woman wi
$100.00
ORIGINAL OUTSIDER ART STRANGE UNUSUAL COLLAGE
$9.99
Chinese Paper Cuts -Generals of Communist China
$2.00
Chinese Jade/Nephrite Pig with lucky designs
$16.80
Clown Portrait Wood Carving Framed
$5.00
Chinese Jade RUYI with dragon & mask design
$8.50
1401: Oil on canvas portrait of a woman, 19th c., 18''
$75.00
Staying Alive by Lee Godie
$450.00
942: Carved and painted folk art whimsy, 8'' h.
$25.00
Chinese KunLun Jade Han Dragon
$32.00
Chinese Jade snuff Pot with Dragon
$8.50
CHINESE AGATE/BRUSH WASHER SURROUND PIXIU & BAT-75g
$8.88
12.6'' Leather Shadow Play puppet--Women
$9.99
Chinese Blue Quartz Seal Stamp with gold toad
$9.60
1237: Five pcs. of woodenware, late 19th/early 20th c.,
$25.00
1249: Folk art house, late 19th c., having 2 human figu
$100.00
Chinese Jade Kneel Figurine Hold Jar
$9.99
1407: Watercolor floral drawing, 19th c., 13 1/2'' x 9
$25.00
1049: Three early bowling balls, together with 10 pins.
$50.00
EDD LAMBDIN Kentucky Large White Faced Girl in Spandex"
$99.00
Chinese Qing Jade-Rare Fortune PiXiu Sculpture-100g
$12.00
UNIQUE Chinese Folk Painted Papercuts (Birds in Vases)
$5.99
China Imperial Jade-Awesome Paradise Buddha Pendant-70g
$12.99
Handmade Wood Inlay Marquetry Sunset Picture
$19.99
Folk art 16x12 landscape signed P. Hamilton late 1900's
$26.00
KunLun Jade/BRUSH WASHER WITH BAT TOTEM SCULPTURE-345g
$13.50
Mose T Mose Tolliver SELF PORTRAIT Folk Art Painting NR
$149.27
CHINESE QING JADE/AWESOME PHOENIX CUP SCULPTURE-295g
$14.99
Chinese Imperial Jade-Dragons Pearl Vases Pendant-30g
$8.50
ORIGINAL OUTSIDER ART STRANGE UNUSUAL COLLAGE
$9.99
Black Tonala Art Pot Signed P. Mateos
$14.99
Beautiful German Fraktur Style Framed Bird Print
$9.99
1251: Carved wooden flywheel, early 20th c., resting on
$25.00
CHINESE NATURAL JADE/FIVE BATS AROUND FU PENDANT-30g
$2.88
Chinese Qing Jade-Ancient Alien Humanoid Pendant-100g
$7.50
Chinese Old Jade-Excellent Necklace(50 turtles)-160g
$9.99
12"China Jade Very beautiful
$0.99
CHINESE AGATE/LOVELY FISH PENDANT-110g
$8.88
Chinese Qing Jade FeiTian(fly fairy flute)
$16.50
CHINESE YELLOW JADE/VIVID BIG PEANUT PENDANT-400g
$9.99
Mose T Mose Tolliver WATERMELON Folk Art Painting NR
$103.50
A TASTE OF THE FINE ARTS
$0.99
Charming Watercolor of "Pretty Dick" Bird & Verse 1877
$24.99
Primitive Folk Art Print: PLOWING by Martha Cahoon
$22.50
Chinese Qing Jade ShouXing(god of longevity)
$15.00
1152: Painted dome lid box, 19th c., 22'' h., 39'' w.
$100.00
Chinese Jade a pair of Bridegroom & Bride
$24.00
Dushan Jade/Double Frogs Holding Fortune Pendant-120g
$9.99
ORIGINAL OUTSIDER ART STRANGE UNUSUAL COLLAGE
$9.99
1947 SDJAFFMAYER MARQUETRY WOOD INLAY PICTURE AUSTRIA
$17.50
Chinese Blue Quartz Tiger Toggle
$9.50
Chinese Jade Kneel Tutelary Carry Phoenix
$15.00
FOLK ART COSTA RICA LADY SELLING FRUITS ETC WAGON MINT!
$5.59