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2 unusual facts about Folk Art


Museo Nacional de la Máscara

Museo Nacional de la Máscara (National Mask Museum) is a museum in the city of San Luis Potosí dedicated to Mexico’s masked dance and ritual heritage from the pre Hispanic period to the present.

Tally Toor

Irish folk symbols carved on the stonework indicate that it was built by Irish navvies.


Broken Angel House

The site has been compared to Watts Towers in Los Angeles for the ad hoc construction and is acknowledged for its value as folk art and as part of the cultural heritage.

Compton Verney House

The collections include Neapolitan art from 1600 to 1800; Northern European medieval art from 1450–1650; British portraits including paintings of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I and Edward VI and works by Joshua Reynolds; Chinese bronzes including objects from the Neolithic and Shang periods; British folk art; and 20th century textiles including creations by Enid Marx.

Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

Eric Jansson

A brick museum building houses a valuable collection of Folk Art paintings by colonist Olof Krans.

Felipe Jesus Consalvos

Consalvos has been described by art critic Roberta Smith as a "self-starting modernist" who is "nearly on a par with folk-art greats like Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez and James Castle." According to Smith, Consalvos' work "belongs to the collage continuum from Hannah Höch to Barbara Kruger." (Smith 2006).

Florence Dibell Bartlett

Florence Dibell Bartlett (1881–1953) was a Chicago heiress and folk art collector, who is best known for founding the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, the world's first international folk art museum.

Las Tablas, Los Santos

Las Tablas is a recognized national center of Panamanian folk: Art, music, gastronomy, architecture, culture and literature.

Marshalltown, Nova Scotia

Marshalltown was the birthplace of Samuel Edison, father of Thomas Edison (1847-1931), and it was also the home of folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) from 1938 until her death.

Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia

In September 2006, the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia opened on the grounds of the Sautee Nacoochee Center.

Sverre Malling

His work, notable for its precision and intricacy, entwine references to classical art, botany, the occult, psychedelia, folk art and children’s illustrations.

TrueRoots

TrueRoots' most recent documentary production, 'Songs from the Little Road', focuses on the folk art and culture of the Indian state of West Bengal.

Victor Brecheret

Brecheret's work combines techniques of European modernist sculpture with references to his native country through the physical characteristics of his human forms and visual motifs drawn from Brazilian folk art.


see also

Alexa Hampton

Alexa Hampton was awarded the “American Spirit Award” by the American Folk Art Museum in January 2005 for her commission as the interior designer of the Trowbridge House, the official guest house of past presidents of the United States in Washington, DC.

American Folk Art Museum

Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England/Brandeis University Press in association American Folk Art Museum, 2007.

Benjamin A. Botkin

At a panel of the 1939 Writers' Congress, which also included Aunt Molly Jackson, Earl Robinson, and Alan Lomax, Botkin spoke of what writers had to gain from folklore: "He gains a point of view. The satisfying completeness and integrity of folk art derives from its nature as a direct response of the artist to a group and group experience with which he identifies himself and for which he speaks."

Big boli star

BIG Boli Star is a talent hunt contest aimed at promoting Punjabi Boliyan, a traditional Punjabi folk art.

Craft and Folk Art Museum

In 1965, a group of women, led by artist Edith R. Wyle (grandmother of actor Noah Wyle), called the "Folk Art's High Priestess" by the LA Times, channeled their passion for indigenous art into The Egg and The Eye Gallery and Restaurant.

Fenimore Art Museum

The museum’s 20th-century folk art holdings have grown gradually, spurred on by major gifts such as two Grandma Moses landscapes in 1967 and purchases like Ralph Fasanella’s Dress Shop in 1983.

Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali

Yakshagana is a folk art mostly performed in the coastal districts of the state of Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada districts), western parts of Shimoga district and the Kasaragod district of Kerala.

Jenaro Pindú

"Paraguayan Illustrators" at the Museum of Folk Art and Contemporary Art of Paraguay Villeta.

L. A. Ring

Ring drew on the Danish tradition of "almue" (folk) art, such as the work of J. th. Lundbye, but he also incorporated influences from more modernist painters such Paul Gauguin, Jean François Raffaëlli and Jean-François Millet.

Ljuskrona

In 1988, the Folk Art section of the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a grant for the implementation of a survey to document the use and styles that existed in the United States.

Megan Wilson

Her work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, and Southern Exposure.

Neecy Twinem

Twinem developed a unique painting technique that bears inspiration from the native art and textiles of Oaxaca and other traditional Mexican folk art.

Nukus Museum of Art

Opened in 1966, the museum houses a collection of over 82,000 items, ranging from antiquities from Khorezm to Karakalpak folk art, Uzbek fine art and, uniquely, the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde in the world (after the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg).

Ore Mountain folk art

The centre for the manufacture of Ore Mountain folk art lies in the region around the village of Seiffen, which is also known as the Toy Corner (Spielzeugwinkel).

One of the largest collections of folk art is at the Ore Mountain Toy Museum in Seiffen.

Peggy Angus

She spent a year in Indonesia on a scholarship studying Folk Art in Java and Bali.

Rodney Hardee

Florida painter Ruby C. Williams credits Hardee for helping her launch her folk art career.

Salvador Corona

His traditional self-developed folk art style images depicted pastoral colorful scenes of Maximilian era Mexico painted on white backgrounds.

Sōsaku-hanga

Sadao Watanabe worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition, synthesizing Buddhist figure portrayal and Western Christianity in his unique Biblical prints.

World Erotic Art Museum Miami

The collection ranges from folk art to world known artists and their artwork.The Museum shows artwork from artists like Rembrandt, Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Fernando Botero as well as Robert Maplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Bunny Yeager to name just a few out of more than 4000.