The Insitic Artists In The U.S.

We can trace back in American history almost as far as three centuries the work of self-taught artists who have devoted much of their spare time to painting, while carrying on all kinds of professions as their main occupation. There were among them carpenters, carriage makers, housewives, farmers, storekeepers, house and sing painters. Edward Hicks (1780-1849) one of the most famous naïve painter was Quaker preacher. Living far apart, with no easy means of communication, it was impossible for the self-taught painters of early days to form groups or schools to exchange the experiences they had won.

Their works, therefore, differ in style and technique-they show the marks of personal experimenting. The spirit and atmosphere in these pictures is that of the early American way of life. This was folk art in the real sense. It was not produce for a small cultured class of patrons but for the large mass of people, usually those who could not afford the art of the “professionals”. The art-conscious public hardly took any notice of it.

It has been left to our generation to discover it and to recognize its aesthetic value. The intellectuals of our day, who strive to express the complexity and torment of this age in forms and abstractions far removed from nature, have felt the strong appeal that lie in the simplicity and sincerity of the works of the “natural” painters and have ranked them with those by professional artists.
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