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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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The Best Folk Art Tintype Photo Girl in Mourning LARGE
$25.00
OLD COPPER FLAMING ARROW GOLD GILDED WEATHERVANE SIGNED
$99.99
Folk Art Stoneware Drip glazed Bird Whistle
$45.50
Antique pair of prints-METAL CORNER Frames/Early 20thC
$29.99
Antique Hand Painted FOLK ART Wood Candlestick LAMPS
$10.00
Early 20th C Folk Art ARTICULATED DOLL great paint
$9.99
Nice Old Tan Leather Bag, Pouch
$9.99
Antique Folk Art Still Life Apples & Nuts Oil Painting
$9.99
8748: Red Poppies Textured Rare Framed ORIGINAL Art Sal
$300.00
1212: Folk Art Treen Covered Pedestal Jar
$38.00
1900 FRENCH SILK &LACE AMERICANA PATRIOTIC TEXTILE
$9.99
2054B: Ltd Ed signed Colorful Landscape Art
$50.00
1208: Vintage Folk Art Caged Lion Print Behind Bars
$100.00
Pokot Massai Milk or Blood Gourd pre-1940
$59.99
Vintage INLAID Wood SPICE RACK No Damage
$42.99
5519: Dancer Asian Watercolor Style Lithograph Huge Sal
$100.00
Antique SPOON RACK - Hand Carved openings/lovely grain!
$45.00
hand painted polychrome toleware / tinware document box
$99.99
A SCARCE WINGED ANGEL GABRIEL W/ OLD PAINT & GESSO
$9.99
19th Century PRIMITIVE Hand Made GRATER
$19.99
WARRIOR 1950 FOLK ART TOY DOLL HP DATED SIGNED
$20.00
2085B: Children in Garden Soft Pastel Style Ltd Ed
$50.00
9113: Mediterranean Colorful ORIGINAL Framed Canvas Hea
$450.00
6750: Mother & Child Framed ORIGINAL Art Great Gift to
$300.00
AM FOLK ART PAINTING BOY SCOUT NATURE MAP UPSTATE NY
$9.99
Antique INLAID WOODEN Tri-fold PICTURE FRAMES On Base
$42.99
FOUR OLD PRIMITIVE FOLK ART WOOD CARVING OF PENGUINS
$9.99
John Haley Bellamy -Biography of 19th C. Eagle Carver
$20.00
7326: Abstract Colorful Dus RARE Mixed Media Original A
$400.00
2078B: Soft Pastel Impressionistic Ltd Edition Sale
$50.00
AMERICAN PRIMITIVE FOLK ART HUMPTY DUMPTY RAG DOLL
$24.50
Antique Carved Tramp Folk Art, Turtle Mystery Box
$32.00
RICHARD RIOS Mexican Chicano Sculpture Ceramic Pottery
$2200.00
VINTAGE PRIMITIVE DUCK HAND CARVED ORIGINAL PAINT DECOY
$0.99
19th C Cast Iron arched Cat doorstop or paperweight
$9.99
Baltimore Orioles Tramp Art BOTTLE CAP CAN MAN Risque
$19.99
TWO 19th Century cookie cutters RABBIT & DUCK
$0.99
VINTAGE HORSE PLAQUE WOOD CARVING CARVED FOLK ART WIERD
$9.99
Great 40's Applique Quilt-Snowflake and Stars-No Res
$5.00
1209: Figural Carved Wooden Folk Art Cane
$38.00
PRISONER PRISON ART OIL PAINTING BLACK AMERICANA 1993
$19.00
ANTIQUE FOLK ART PRINT INNOCENCE CEDAR BACKING
$49.99
VINTAGE FOLK ART SEAGULL PAINTING ON WOOD PLATE PLATTER
$19.99
ANTIQUE PRIMITIVE WOOD ESKIMO SLID CA 1810 FOLK ART
$24.00
Vintage Primitive Americana Oil Painting Landscape Deer
$9.99
Dorothy Strauser, Motorcycle, Folk Art Hooking... LYZON
$250.00
8801: Rare Size Mediterranean Colorful ORIGINAL Framed
$450.00
2385B: Naïve Asian Style Limited Edition Colorful Art
$100.00
2 uniquely beautiful hand painted bird/flower pictures
$9.99
110: Lot of Outsider Art
$5.00
SUPERB VINTAGE NIGERIAN “WOOL-PAINTING” WALL HANGING
$3500.00
8791: Martini Bar Rare Painting on Canvas Framed Huge S
$1000.00